A Model for Describing the Management Processes in the Scientific Sector. Fundamental Principles

Abstract

A model has been developed to describe the management processes in the scientific sector. The model is based on the analysis of various types of work with knowledge (generation, storage, transfer, systematization and use). The scientific sector is considered as a sector of the economy specializing in the systematization of knowledge, in particular the development of scientific models of various phenomena. Because of their nature, scientific models are abstractions and can be an independent subject for research that is only indirectly based on the demands of the real economy. Scientific models also have predictive capabilities. This is the basis for their use in applied research. Thereby, using the developed management model, we show that the scale and specialization profiles of the scientific sector depend on the needed volume of work with knowledge. Specialization in working with knowledge is not absolute, because in addition to specialized institutions, organizations that are not scientific in the legal sense and individual specialists who work beyond the scientific sector can also do such work. Alternative models implicitly used in the management of the scientific sector are considered.