Vladimir Gusakov
The science of the economy intellectualization
The author gives proof to the paradigm of the world economy transition to a new industrial revolution and defines the main vectors of the national economy reorientation to the end-to-end transformations in the context of Industry 4.0.

Zhanna Komarova, Irina Emelianovich
Incidence matrix
It is a follow-up discussion of the problems facing the Belarusian scientists which was organized within the framework of the round table “Achievements of the Belarusian science to the benefit of the society” and was aimed at finding the ways to improve scientific activity. It was held after the meeting of the scientific community with the President of the Republic of Belarus on April 7, 2017.

Vadim Lakiza
The current state of the Belarusian academic archeology
The article considers the most important scientific achievements of academic archaeologists in recent years, as well as the fundamental and applied research directions of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The author analyzes the development of legislation in the field of the archaeological heritage protection in the 21st century and the allowances for the archaeological research issued within the 2005-2017 period.

Mikalai Kryvaltsevich
The Dvina-Dnieper communication and exchange way 4 thousand years ago
Exploring the waterways along the Western Dvina and the Dnieper at the end of the 3rd ? beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, the author came to the conclusion that they were used for communication and exchange ties between different in their cultural context Baltic and Dnieper regions.

Anna Belitskaya, Alena Baikouskaya, Volha Kharytanovich
The early Slavonic settlements in the lower reach of Stvig river
The study of the late Zarubinets cultural monuments and early Prague antiquities gives grounds to state that the Belarusian Polesie is the site of the early historical Slavic people formation.

Vadim Lakiza, Andrey Voytekhovich
Archeology at the Minsk ring road-2: A new road from the past to the future
The article considers the significance of the rescue archaeology in Belarus by the example of the researched Minsk ring road-2 construction zone. The Slavonic settlements Bovbly and Vasilevshchina, found there, allowed to reconstruct the historical events and way of life of the 10th – 12th centuries people and to see the early state structures formation.

Siarhei Linevich
Underwater archaeological research in Belarus
The article deals with the history of underwater archeology and presents the results of underwater research on the territory of Belarus, which enabled to find and raise 14 unique mortar bombs of the second half of the 17th century.

Sergei Dorozhkin
Entrepreneurship and economic growth: monitoring the relationship
The author analyses the processes of the entrepreneurship development in the 20th -21st centuries and the models of the state and business relationship. The author proposes a list of indicators to assess the level of the SME sector development.

Sergey Tishkov
Models and evaluation of innovation development
The article considers the models of innovative development, analyzes the conditions for the innovative economy formation in different countries of the world, and Russia in particular. A sound system of indicators and a statistical base are given as a necessary condition for comprehensive evaluation of innovation.

Aliaksandr Lutsevich, Pavel Kazakou
Opportunities for the MTWHolding commodity distribution networks development in the Russian market
The article considers the trends of the agricultural machinery world market, analyzes the structure of the new tractors import share, systematizes the strengths and weaknesses of the Minsk Tractor Works foreign economic activity, suggests the promising directions for the commodity distribution networks of the enterprise development.

Irina Emelianovich
Looking for the sources of future growth
Interview with the Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology, Doctor of Economic Sciences Alexander Shumilin on the novels contained in a review “Innovation for Sustainable Development” prepared by the UN ECE this year.

Dmitriy Olshevskiy
Social Media Marketing as an effective tool of digital marketing
The large amount of digital marketing tools forces the companies to look for new effective ways of internet communication with customers. Social Media Marketing is one of the most actual ways as it uses the social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service.

Juliya Faizulina
Opportunities and risks of Belarusian exporters at entering the markets of the former Yugoslavia’s states
The article analyses the opportunities and risks for the Republic of Belarus related to the foreign trade with the former Yugoslavia’s states development, in particular FYR Macedonia, Slovenia and Croatia.

Vladimir Lebedko
Orchids in Belarus: local diversity and current state
The article gives information on such botanical discipline as orchidology, its emergence and development in Belarus. The peculiar features of rare Belarusian orchids, their taxonomyand distribution have been considered.