%0 Journal Article %T Contents of innovation systems and mechanisms of their functioning %A Pugina Larisa Ivanovna %J Sovremennaa Ekonomika : Problemy, Tendencii, Perspektivy %D 2011 %I %X The article considers a variety of approaches to the definition of the concept of "innovation" and "innovation system". Clarified the concept of "innovation", which includes not only a sign of novelty decisions, but also the shape of the economic implementation of innovations. Deepened and broadened the concept of "innovation system", which is understood by us as a single complex of businesses and organizations interconnected with organizational and economic mechanism. The operation of this complex is directed on creation, adoption and diffusion of innovations. %K Innovation %K innovative system %K organizational and economic mechanism %U http://www.mivlgu.ru/site_arch/educational_activities/journal_ec/journal_arch/N5/pugina.pdf