Igor Shary
Youth policy in the sphere of science: The main stages
The article deals with the problem of the national youth policy higher effectiveness which is one of the most important goals of the Belarusian social development strategy.

Mikhail Amelin
New social classes and structures of the information society
The article deals with the new trends in the e-business and new information society. There has been made a monitoring of the socio-economic and digital gap in the arising information society.

Sergey Chizhik
Cutting the diamonds of the young Belarusian science
Making a choice in favour of science is not an easy thing. There is given an information on the advantages of the research activity, tutorship, research personnel migration, science commercialization environment formation.

Olga Kievlyakis
A view from inside
What role does the Council of the young scientists play in attracting the youth to science? What community and consumer problems face the researchers? What advantages and disadvantages has the grant system of the science financing? These issues and some others were discussed with Andrey Ivanets.

Yuriy Nechepurenko
The intellectual property indicators
The article presents the prevailing intellectual property indicators used for qualitative and quantitative assessment of scientific-technological and innovation activity for purposes of international comparison.

Aleksandr Korshunov
Innovation and education
The author analyses the position of Belarus in the system of the world higher education and shows a considerable gap between the formal criteria and quality of education indicators.

Valeriy Goncharov
Scientific breakthroughs: Problems of choice and realization
The article defines three main universal vectors of scientific breakthroughs, which can be found in almost every country.

Irina Emelianovich
Information society in Belarus: A development trajectory
It is the interview with the associate professor of the Chair of Economics of the M.Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University Sergey Sergeev on the rating of our country in the report “Information society dimension 2014’.

Maksim Voyteshonok, Irina Paramonova
Innovation susceptibility as a generalized indicator of liability for innovative activity
The current attempts to give a definition and analysis of the innovation susceptibility have been reviewed. The suggested idea of its microeconomic specification was based on the processes stimulating the activity of some economic entities in the sphere of the innovation generation, transfer and implementation.

Inna Marakhina
Problems and possibilities of innovation economy development in Belarus.
The article describes the nature of the innovation economy and gives the analysis of its formation in the Republic of Belarus. Based on this analysis the author reveals the main constraints of this process. A particular emphasis is given to the development of the innovation system financing, including venture capital trusts, informal investors networks, crowd funding sites.

Sailau Baizakov
Labour market models, focused on the final product
There is given a mathematical statement of the market equilibrium, production levels, employment, income and prices. A labour market model focused on the final product was considered by giving an example of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Denis Moroz
Boundless cooperation
There has been presented a project of the transboundary platform “Biznestrans” for partnership relations between businessmen and research institutions on the border territories of Belarus and Poland with its perspectives being considered.

Valery Shalatonin, Liubo? Uladyko?skaya
Electromagnetic waves in oncology: Is the paradigm of G. Lakhovsky confirmed?
The authors attempted to analyse the world outlook and scientific achievements of Georgy Lakhovsky. They showed that his ideas and instruments developed for therapy of malignant tumors still remain relevant and popular.

Iryna Budzko, Siarhey Haranin
Annalistic story about Prophetic Oleg and its versifications
The article discusses the versifications of annalistic story about Prophetic Oleg by K. Ryleev, A. Pushkin, V. Vysotsky. These versifications are focused on an inaccurate presentation of the story by N. Karamzin.

Volha Marfina
Belarusian paleoanthropology
The article discusses the history of the Belarusian population paleoanthropological research. Belarusian researchers have identified the anthropological features of the skull structure and postcranial skeleton of territorial series relating to different historical periods and proved the heterogeneity of anthropological composition of the medieval Belarusian population.

Elena Makeeva, Natalia Minchenko
A regulating mechanism of the genetic resources use
This is the information on the Nagoya Protocol of the genetic resources access regulating where Belarus is a member.

Irina Emelianovich, Larisa Botaeva
A region of actively introduced innovations
The information given is about one of the most innovatively active regions of Russia, Tomsk region, where the effective infrastructure has been made and new samples of the science intensive produce have been successfully tested. The measures realized to achieve these results in the region have been presented.