High technologies sector under the conditions of the European integration: innovative development

Abstract

This paper analyses the needs and priorities of the creation and further development of high technologies sector in the European Union. The general and specific trends of the creation of high technologies sector in the context of enlargement of the European Union are described and analyzed. The needs and priorities of the creation and further development of high technologies sector in the European Union, as well as the main challenges for the creation, development and further modernization of high technologies sector in the context of globalization, European integration and creation of the knowledge based society and knowledge economy, are discussed. The structure and the main spheres and parts of the contemporary high technologies sector in the European Union are characterized. New theoretical concept oriented to the creation, development and further modernization of high technologies sector, and based on the priorities of initiation of the synergy effects, is described. The essence of this theoretical concept – orientation to the multifaced interaction between different institutions and organizations representing different activities, functions, systems and interests, and different industries, different spheres of production, manufacturing and services, as well as different sectors of economy and social life in general. The role of the processes of internationalization and their impact on the development of high technologies sector are analyzed. There are many possibilities to implement new the non–traditional ideas of intensive technological development, which could be very successful in the context of contemporary challenges of high technologies sector's development and modernization. The following ideas are emphasized: (1) the idea of rational specialization of every high technologies sector in every national or regional economic system; (2) the idea of “oases” and of complex clusterization.