Socio-Economic Processes Functioning and Innovation Education Development

This article presents the results achieved in the process of a comprehensive solution to an important problem: the development of the theory and methodology of management of a higher educational institution based on an innovative approach. The theory of management of a higher educational institution, as a complex socio-economic system, based on the study of the causes and general patterns of the development of universities, which implies the implementation of its competitive advantages by the university on the basis of an innovative approach, has been developed and supplemented. It has been substantiated that the genesis of innovative approaches to the development of the system of higher professional education is an example of an increase in the stability of the system in the evolutionary period of development—the preservation of a certain specialization of subsystems, which consists in the development of new, including distance learning, forms of training by operational subsystems, while maintaining the traditions of scientific research. Activity and continuity of scientific knowledge in conservative subsystems. The methodology of management of a higher educational institution based on an innovative approach, methodological approaches to improving the management system of a higher education institution have been developed, a system for assessing the competitive position of a higher education institution, including determining the features of the development of a competitive situation in the educational services market, has been proposed. The made theoretical generalization of the formation of competitive universities in the market of educational services deepens the content of methods of applying self-organization laws to socio-economic systems, methods of managing business processes of a university based on innovative approaches. The inclusion of the main provisions of the theory of self-organization in the management system will contribute to the best interpretation of the process of transition of a university to a new qualitative state in order to develop appropriate principles, methods and forms of its management. The developed methods allow the systematization of information material on the innovative development of the university; optimization of the distribution of funds, promptly responding to constantly changing conditions. The distinctive features of this article are the consideration of the process of functioning of a higher educational institution from the point of view of innovative and synergistic approaches, as well as the formalization of the transition of the higher education system to a new qualitative state with the development of innovative forms of educational technologies and the preservation of the traditions of scientific activity, the continuity of scientific knowledge. The application of the developed methodology will be able to contribute to increasing the stability of the university system by developing new, innovative forms of teaching by operational subsystems, while maintaining the traditions of scientific activity and the continuity of scientific knowledge by conservative subsystems. This will make it possible to form higher educational institutions of a new type—innovative universities, whose activities will be carried out within the framework of the priorities and targets of the state for the development of education as the most important resource for the formation of a new economy based on knowledge, which, in our opinion, is a solution to an important national economic problem.