THE PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS INCUBATOR IN INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL MARKETS ON THE EXAMPLE OF EDF ENERGY COMPANY

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In modern conditions of development of the world the majority of the advanced countries set the task to build the updated state with the developed competitive economy. Kernel of structural changes is the state innovative strategy and active scientific and
technical policy of firms and regions oriented to assistance to development of advanced technologies of breakthrough nature. The sector of scientific developments and their effective commercialization is a basis of competitive industrial production, and in developed countries the developed innovative system includes not only innovative projects and the innovative business, but also research sector, education realizing them subsequently - all this is in one big cluster. Basic Elements of this system are the science cities created today, special economic zones, science and technology parks, the centers of a transfer of technologies, so-called business incubators.
One of necessary conditions of innovative development is availability of the effective innovative infrastructure providing transition of results of scientific developments to the market of products and services. The leading place in this process is taken by innovative business incubators. Now the main problem of the innovative sphere not only Russia, but also developed countries is inability to turn intellectual potential into the assets capable to the effective address in the world markets of knowledge and high technologies. Therefore the most important task of infrastructure of innovative economy is ensuring functioning of all chain of intellectual production: from receipt of orders for new developments before promotion of results of intellectual activities on the internal and world markets. In the conducted research the following methods were used: the theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific literature, periodicals about development of business incubators, creation of new innovative products and projects of the Électricité de France (EDF) company.