Sergey Gaponenko
Light, photonics and life
The article gives the analysis of the optical technologies development from the ancient times to the present days. In the focus is photonics and nanophotonics, their achievements and opportunities.

Irina Emelianovich
From light generation to photodynamic therapy
Academician Valentin Orlovich, a co-manager of the subprogamme “Photonics, research programme “Development of modern optics and laser physics methods and technologies to be used in industry, medicine, agriculture, ecology, defense”, speaks on the intermediate results of the Programme tasks.

Elena Naumenko
By common efforts
To consolidate the relations between science and production, there was formed the Scientific and technological association “Optics and lasers” according to the decision of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Presidium. The article gives the results of its work.

Yuriy Trofimov, Igor Kaleda, Amangeldy Taukenov, Sergey Lishik
Evolution of the direct replacing LED lamps
There have been considered the design and technological features and performance characteristics of the up-to-date light sources, the direct replaced LED lamps. A brief analysis is given to the current state of these technologies in the Customs Union countries.

Mikhail Korzhik
The scintillation phenomenon and its role in the modern experimental physics development
The article considers the scintillation phenomenon studied in Belarus, that enabled the Belarusian researchers to develop and launch to production the PbWO4 scintillator, which became one of the most frequently used devices of this type in the high-energy physics experiments.

Maksim Bogdanovich, Gennadiy Ryabtsev
More efficient, more compact, more powerful
The authors analyze the problems of previous development and further improvement of the solid laser systems. There are given examples of modern solid lasers with diode pumping, developed in the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, to be used in range finding, laser spectroscopy, environmental monitoring.

Vitaliy Plavskiy
The light used to solve the urgent problems in medicine and agriculture
The article considers the results of the research and innovative developments performed at the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus during the last years in the field of the laser-optical technologies to solve the urgent problems in medicine and agriculture.

Alena Prasniakova
Innovatory approach to financing investment projects from public funds
The article deals with the form of state participation in investment activities. There are revealed the problematic issues of government support and preferential crediting of investment projects.

Yulia Yakubuk
Services for businesses in the innovation economy
The article considers the business services sector role, the opportunities for the outsourcing services as a potential for optimizing the activities of home enterprises.

Sergey Tishkov
Management of innovative processes in the Republic of Karelia
The article deals with the concept of regional innovation subsystems and provides a methodology for assessing its state. The index of the regional innovative development has been formed.

Polina Martynchik
Chalcogenides for microelectronics
The information is on the practical application and future-oriented works related to the metal-insulator transition, magnetoresistance and thermoelectric effects in chalcogenide compounds of manganese and solid solutions made on their basis.

Irina Emelianovich
Integration as a way to success
It is the interview with a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus academician Aleksandr Aseev about the opportunities of further Russian and Belarusian scientific collaboration.

Mikalai Kochatau
Creation of the predictive models of market development
Demand forecasting is one of the problems of the product manufacturing process. The article gives the technique of the innovative product predictive model building based on the probability theory, respective methods and an example of practical calculation.

Dmitry Maryasis
The Israeli technology commercialization system
Technology commercialization system is a basic component of every innovations based economy. Israel has created one of the most efficient tech transfer system in the world. And now this country is considered to be among world scale high tech leaders.

Irina Emelianovich
Keeping abreast of the times
This is a series of materials on the research results of the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the institution.

Victor Satishur
Organomineral fertilizers made of biogas installations waste
There is shown a possibility of use of biogas installations waste as raw resource for organomineral fertilizers production.

Irina Tereshko, Pavel Markov, Elena Tolstaya, Timur Gorchakov, Valeriy Tereshko, Vsevolod Redko
Non-thermal plasma in biomedicine
The article considers the impact of glow discharge plasma (GDP) on biological objects. There was investigated in vitro the mice leukocytes response in the medium with the processed by the GDP water to the functional activity of immunocompetent cells (ICCs) and so their interactions with the molecules-regulators, i.e. pectins were modulated.