This science is represented by the knowledge of the essenceinnovation, its organization and management, ensuring the transformation of newly acquired knowledge into innovations that are in demand by society. This process can be based both on commercial and non-commercial interests (for example, use in the social sphere can serve). As a gnoseological roots, the specialty "innovation" is used by many sciences and various branches of knowledge. The main ones are: economy and entrepreneurship, philosophy and psychology, sociology and pedagogy, production organization, marketing and logistics, and informatics.
This subject is quite successfully used as atheoretical and methodological basis for modeling and formal description of the activities of any organization and its management. Unlike other scientific fields, the theory of innovation studies the progressive development of various objects, their transition from one type of socio-economic system to another, from one state to another, more stable and characterized by high parameters. This area of science will ensure the use of the results obtained with subsequent increment of intellectual capital.
The subject itself in educational institutions is consideredlaws, regularities and principles of all innovative processes in various systems. Also, studies of models and methods for describing the organization with subsequent management of innovation at various levels of the economy are conducted.
By itself, innovation is a specialty,introduced into scientific circulation by the Austrian economist Schumpeter. In the Russian scientific literature this term first met in the 80s of the twentieth century. In the leading higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation a new specialty "Innovation" is opened.
- the theoretical basis of activity in the field of innovation;
- modeling of various processes containing some novelty;
- organization and management of the introduction of all new technologies in domestic enterprises;
- state regulation of these issues;
- management of investment processes in this field of research;
- Building the principles of scientific and technical activities on a commercial basis.
To summarize, it should be noted that innovation today is the most powerful potential that can transform gray reality into an interesting, rich life.