The systems-activity concept of innovation – the imperative for sustainable social programming of a solidarity society

Abstract

Historically, scientific and technological progress has determined the emergence and continuous development of forms of its social organization, objectively forming the images of solidarity society corresponding to these forms. It is argued that the main social phenomenon accompanying scientific and technological progress is innovation, and it is hypothesized that this concept can be based on the ontological concept of innovation. On the basis of well-known methods of ontological research, the method of dialectic-systemic construction of innovation as a system of unitary social activity which generates new opportunities of social development leading to growth of social quality of the solidarity society is proposed. The system-activity concept of innovation is substantiated and its invariant conceptual structure, which is defined as the unity of two innovative structures: the phenomenon of innovation and the manifestation of innovation, which determine the organization and management of innovation, is constructed. The proposed concept of innovation can only be the imperative of sustainable social programming of a solidarity society, which provides a method of dialectical-systemological construction of innovation that allows detailing the original invariant conceptual structure for each specific image of a solidarity society due to a particular stage of scientific and technological progress.