UNIVERSITY AS A DRIVER OF CITY DEVELOPMENT
The idea about the mission of modern university as a mechanism of development of that territory in which it is located is proved in the article. Since the university, especially the large one, is located, as a rule, in a megalopolis, its goal is to accumulate problems that arise in various areas of the city's activity, conduct research to identify the primary sources of these problems and propose solutions for them. The author considers it necessary to create a multivector center (or centers) that study city problems based on a university the goal of which is to serve as a generator of innovative ideas at the request of the community. The country lacks a high-quality human capital, and the university acts as its blacksmith shop. We need reform the educational process to cope with a task to impart desire to be engaged in research work and to create skills of an entrepreneurship at youth. In this process the worthy place would be taken by horizontal communications of the student's autonomous research teams working in various scientific directions in close connection with specific production and competing for intra higher school and extra higher school grant support. The main objectives of higher education institution as territory driver are specified in their connection with some methods of the process of knowledge acquisition, for example, team work on the concrete project urgent for innovative development of the city. The main directions of city development, which will be characteristic of all megalopolises are designated - in their course student's researches will be demanded within the next ten years. The author of article claims that the intensive cooperation of all city structures and university will allow to raise considerably the quality level of a human capital, requirement for which is felt in all fields of economic and not economic activity.