Title: PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AS A TOOL FOR IMPROVING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SECTOR
Abstract: The article is devoted to the issues of scientific and innovative developments sector, foreign experience in solving insufficient financing problems through mechanisms of interaction between the state and business, and the use of this experience for Russia.Since international scientific and technical cooperation in the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century has become the close attention subject of both individual states and influential international organizations, many countries are considering this form of cooperation, which has become an intersection of the science interests sphere, science and technology policy and foreign policy as an instrument for developing its own scientific potential and economic growth for a long-term perspective.The importance of the role that science and innovation play in determining the competitiveness of states, determining their place in the international division of labor, no one doubts.As for Russia, today everyone understands the need for speedy introduction of its economy into an innovative way of development, and it is impossible to do this without active development of science.The data analysis testifies to a certain increase in the expenditures of the federal budget on science.However, this increase is directed only at covering the costs of current items, but does not provide such expenditure items as acquisition of intangible assets, devices and equipment, overhaul of fixed assets.