Vladimir Gusakov
The benefits and dangers of world informatization
The author suggests taking a view of the high technology genesis and considers the hidden specifics of global informatization.

Zhanna Komarova
Science intensive business in the digital age
Alexander Shumilin, Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology, Doctor of Economic Sciences, talks about the development of high-tech entrepreneurship, its role, potential and prospects.

Vitaly Тyshlek, Irina Kolesnaya, Hanna Rupenka
Features of the small business incubator development
The article examines the features of the small business incubator formation and development in the Republic of Belarus, taking into account the respective world experience and different stages of business incubator development.

Vitaly Tyshlek
The startup development in the Republic of Belarus
The article considers the startups creation and development dynamics in the Republic of Belarus, and the role of the state in this process. The problems have been identified and the ways to solve them have been proposed.

Oleg Kondrashov, Kirill Kurylenok, Boris Lapko
The economic efficiency of the engineering services for startups assessment in the ecosystem of their cultivation
The authors present their approach to the development and assessment of the ecosystem of the startups economic efficiency, which combines the theory of the innovation pipe and lean manufacturing.

Sviatlana Viartai, Rami Tout
Formation of an innovative eco-environment to promote science intensive startups
The authors consider the main approaches to the eco-environment formation, promoting the science intensive startups, and suggest the conditions for its effective development.

Gao Yuan
China–Belarus cooperation based on industrial parks
The article considers the significance and problems of China–Belarus cooperation on the basis of scientific, technological and industrial parks. The main directions of enhancing the Belarusian-Chinese interregional ties have been determined.

Vitali Vasekha
The current stage of fruit growing in the Republic of Belarus
The indicators related to the cultivation, consumption, export and import of fruits and berries in Belarus over the past 5 years have been analyzed, as well as factors of growth and further intensive development of the industry, which occupies one of the most important places in the structure of domestic agriculture.

Yulia Vasilishina
Correcting the errors
Leading domestic experts in the field of genetics, protein engineering, biosafety and philosophy discuss the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, restrictions and prohibitions on its use, as well as the prospects of Belarus in this area.

Aliaksandr Areshankau
Scientific potential of medical research in the context of changing technological orders
The article considers the main components of the scientific potential of medical research in the context of the transition to the 6th technological order. The pre-conditions for the breakthrough technologies development in the health care, analysis of funding, staffing of R&D in the field of medical sciences are given.

Tatsiana Zhdanovich
Attraction of the Unknown. How young Belarusian physicists are improving technologies, their lacking would have resulted in the world isolation long before the pandemic
It is an essay about Tatsiana Zubar, a laureate of the prestigious Zhores Alferov Prize, the creator of the advanced materials for supermodern transport and other communication means, the successor to the best scientific traditions and a born researcher.

Maxim Chernik, Vyacheslav Zvyagintsev, Antonina Nestyuk, Andrey Ryzhkov
European mantis in Belarus and its impact on the population of honey bees
The article discusses the risks for the ecology and agriculture of our country associated with the emergence and spread of a new species of insects, the predatory mantis beetle, which lived before global warming only in the southern part of Europe.

Iryna Smirnova
Neglyubsky costume. Techniques for making
The article discusses the technological methods of weaving, embroidery, wickerwork and other traditional techniques for making and decorating items of clothing of the Neglyubsky costume – one of the most unique, vibrant and archaic folk costumes of the Gomel–Bryansk borderland.

Alena Paulava
Ritual images of a pigeon and a dove in wedding songs of Belarusians
About the traditional symbolism of the images of birds - pigeons and doves, which are most often used at different ceremonial stages of the Belarusian wedding, as well as the meaning and functions that are embedded in them.

Eduard Mogilevets, Petr Garelik, Nikolai Prokopchik, Rimma Kravchuk, Evgeny Doroshenko, Vitaly Smirnov
Correction of liver regeneration using photodynamic therapy
The article presents the results of a pilot clinical study of a new method of photodynamic therapy in patients with liver cirrhosis, indicating an improvement in this organ functional state and reduction of connective tissue in it.