Experience of Innovations Institutionalization: Interaction of the World Scientific Community

Institutionalization of innovations at all stages of the scientific and technical revolution of the second half of the twentieth century was carried out through the interaction of technological, economic, organizational and social factors. The research goal is to analyze the role of scientists and their interaction in the process of innovations institutionalization. Archival documents studied by the authors, materials of correspondence between Soviet, American, European, and Japanese scientists are of high research value. The article considers interaction directions of Soviet scientists with foreign colleagues to solve the most important problems of world science in the 1950s and 1960s in the field of research on the structure and properties of polymers, physical organic chemistry, electrochemical thermodynamics, creation of scientific bases for selecting catalysts to process oil and natural gases, and transmission of electricity over long distances. The authors studied approaches to solving problems of innovations institutionalization, analyzed factors that contributed to the exchange of technologies and ideas in the most relevant scientific areas. The examined documents reveal a close cooperation of the world scientific community in the first phase of the technological revolution and allow us to draw conclusions about the personal involvement of scientists in institutionalizing innovation.