INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS: MAIN FEATURES

The decisive factor in the social and economic development of countries and the world was the contribution of science, innovation, and new technologies. With their help, the production volume of products, goods, and services and their diversity is constantly increasing. At the same time, the key to successful and stable development is not in the availability of the latest achievements but the possibilities for the country’s benefit. The more efficient the market mechanism for the transmission and attraction of the latest achievements, the more efficient the distribution of this factor of production in society and the greater the benefit to scientific organizations and the state will be. The role of international cooperation is to support and complement national efforts. Nowadays, an analysis of international trends shows that the effective development of science and the creation of competitive innovation products is impossible without the deep integration of national scientific and industrial spheres into global research and innovation networks. That is the only way to ensure the inflow of foreign investment, highly effective personnel, and new technologies.