Abstract:

The article deals with the ontology of innovation activity. It is shown that the Western model of innovative development is not universal. In the case of the Russian state, both historical and contemporary content of its innovative development indicates that the criteria of “innovative behavior” (democracy, capitalism, individualism, competition, risk, monetization) are rejected by Russian culture and do not correspond to the specifics of the national thinking and cognition. Sociological monitoring of Russian society and epistemological tradition of cultural and historical experience of the Russian state indicates that the criteria of the Western type of “innovative behavior” can’t be applied to it. It also justifies the existence of the equal Eurasian innovative development model, the main determinants of which are patronymy and genetic collectivism of collective consciousness.