The key immanent feature of global economic development in recent decades is the dynamic intellectualization of all spheres of reproduction of the global social product. Concentratedly accumulating within itself the results of scientific, technical, technological and innovative activities achieved by human civilization, it acquires its material expression in a significant increase in the contribution of intellectual factors to the structural dynamics of world economic development, the development of the information society and knowledge economy in global coordinates, and systematic involvement in the world's reproductive processes innovative technologies, comprehensive implementation of progressive methods of organization and management of production, increasing the scale of production of innovatively capable products, deep technological modernization of corporate strategies and business models. The steady increase in scale and high structural dynamics of modern interstate exchange of high technologies determine its key characteristics such as universality, technological convergence, product-species differentiation, institutional-regulatory diversification and organic connection with structural transformations of all sectors of the global production complex. Despite the unconditional competitive leadership of the developed countries of the world in the high-tech segment of the global market, in recent decades, a number of newly industrialized countries and states with newly created markets are actively emerging as leaders of global innovation progress. These countries have not only achieved a high level of development of the high-tech sphere and occupied a worthy place on the global innovation map, but are now really claiming the redistribution of the high-tech segment of the world market and entering into fierce competition with global leaders. The key to their success was large-scale state support for fundamental and applied research and development, effective technological clustering of national economies, their deep integration into the global innovation space, as well as the development of deep cooperative ties with leading Western corporations and the systematic modernization of national university education systems.