Network interaction: the key factor of education, science and business integration

The demands for science, education and business are getting higher and higher in themodern world as the high-tech industry grows rapidly, renewal cycles of industrial equipment are constantly reduced, scientific designsare shortly implemented into mass production, employers' requirements for structure and contents of personnel training and retrainingare changing and the economy informatization is progressively growing. Such conditions do not allow separated and independent developmentand adaptation of science, education and business to be effective. But there is a complication in the development of the modernsystem of science-education-business integration network-interaction-based management: both domestic and foreign literature on theproblems of inter-organizational networks development problems contain multitude of various conceptions, opinions and approaches tothe definition of "network structure" and economic and institutional foundations of the functioning of such systems, and to highlightingphases of their formation. Different opinions on "network structure" term are analysed, including those of domestic and foreign authors.It is pointed out that the term is widely represented in scientific literature, and is considered from diverse scientific points of view thatcomplement each other. Generally, network structures are considered from the following positions: network as an interaction method,network as an organization integration method, and network as an institute. In the article network structures are defined as a complex ofhomogeneous and heterogeneous independent business entities tied with certain integration relations to achieve maximum efficiency inusing existing resources, governed by mutual long-term objectives and acting in accordance with uniform concerted rules under conditionsof situational leadership and direct communication channels. Approaches to network structures classification reviewed in the articleare suggested by R. Miles and C. Snow, H. Hinterhuber and B. Levin, M. Castells and de Man, K. Moller and A. Rajal. However, ifthe network approach will be used to intensify education-science-production integration in the system of higher professional education,it is suggested to supplement the network classification with additional specific-purpose criterion of network formation, which relates tothe main direction of network operation. One of the most urgent and promising directions of competitive recovery for network structureplayers is specialization on key activities, where they already have either evident superiority or potential for making and keeping thatsuperiority. This is why the article covers educational, innovative, infrastructure and integration network structures of educationscience-business. According to the author, integration network structures must become an important part of the national innovative system.Effective development of this system might accelerate integration processes of network players, which allow synergic effect fromnetwork interaction and proper coordination of its players.

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