Conceptual Foundations of Innovative Development of the National Economy in the Context of Technological Structures and Energy Innovations

Abstract

The relevance of the study is conditioned by changes in approaches to the development of the national economy based on energy innovation in the context of aspects of greening the economy, energy independence, energy saving, and innovation synergy. The purpose of the study is to form a conceptual model of innovative development of the national economy in the energy sector in the context of well-established trends in increasing the consumption of energy resources. The study was conducted in two stages based on a systematic approach using general scientific theoretical methods, namely: analysis, synthesis, systematisation, generalisation, and structural method. The paper substantiates the need to study innovative national economic development within the energy sector based on the research papers by foreign scientists. The main approaches to defining the concept of “innovation” in the context of the economic space, including process-oriented, functional and effective, are considered. The relationship between the stages of the innovation life cycle and the level of development of the national economy is established. This paper describes changes in technological patterns of socio-economic relations within the framework of a historical retrospective. Structural and functional features of the category “development” are determined in order to investigate the conceptual foundations of innovative development of the national economy. The main models of innovative development in the world practice are highlighted. The features of operation of the basic concepts of innovative development of the national economy in the energy sector are clarified, including “cluster concept”, “alternative energy”, “Smart Grid”, “sustainable development”, based on which the author’s conceptual model of innovative economic development of the energy sector was created. Prospects for further study are seen in the practical application of the created model of innovative economic development of the energy sector

Keywords

• energy sector
• conceptual model
• economic development
• innovation
• cluster concept
• alternative energy