The basic trend of world economic development — sustained increase in demand for scientific and technical resources, including innovation.

The Russian professional appraisers community has every opportunity to overcome those crisis effects, that are taking place at the present time.

Collapse of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and desire for public life democratization is characteristic feature of the new era. Globalization process contributes to this, as the information about wellfunctioning state system and social order quickly acquires the power of example in other parts of the world.

It seems that talk about creating some special innovation legislation is screening to do nothing, just wait: it’s well known that the procedure of legislation development and adoption is a long process, and innovations do not wait, we are so far behind anyway.

Today’s concepts of modernization do not deny the necessity of borrowing the best practices of the East and the West, but in general focus on such methods of modernization, which keep in mind national goals and a variety of ways to achieve them, including the search for genuine methods.

Today it is appropriate to think: whether modernization can be accomplished under the conditions of spiritual and moral crisis, cultural degradation of the country, of a depression of immensely large proportion of the population?

The fishing industry of Russia turned up to be economically and organizationally disintegrated, unable to maintain the integrity of the entire value chain from fishing to sale of finished fish products.

The human brain is a natural neural network, but model of the brain can be approximately represented in the form of artificial distributed neural network.

Even if outflow of capital seems to someone a purely personal stroke of pen in the payment documents or enjoyable staccato of fingers on the keyboard, even if for an economist it’s just a passionless statistical indicator, the high significance of ready cash is a fact of contemporary crisis geo-economics.

This year, more than 100 social sphere facilities and objects of housing and communal services are under capital construction on the territory of the Volgograd region. For this purpose 4.6 billion rubles were provided in the regional budget. It should be noted that the regiondid notbuild social objectsat such a pace and with such large-scale funding for a long time. People’s confidence can be gained only through real actions.