The University as a Center of Concentration of Knowledge and Reproduction of the Intellectual Elite

Abstract

The article is devoted to the university as a center of concentration of knowledge and reproduction of the intellectual elite. The process of innovation development of the university as a center of knowledge presupposes the existence of the three key phases of activity:1. analysis of the innovation potential of the university; 2. development of an innovative strategy for human development at the University; 3. implementation and development of the intellectual elite with the innovation strategy of the university as a tool of regional development. In this research we check three main hypotheses: - changes of the methodological principles, patterns, forms, methods and criteria of the university as an integrator of knowledge related to the process of modernization of the economy and the nature of the relationship between business entities; - to develop theoretical concepts of economic theory about the intellectual elite - “innovative person” as a special subject of economic relations, forming a new innovation system; - develop the concepts of the process of reproduction of the intellectual elite, with justification the author's approach to its classification. The authors also describe the current state of the education system in universities and suggest a number of necessary conditions for the successful implementation of the concept of the knowledge triangle and the formation of the intellectual elite.