Scientific and Technical Potential: Analysis of Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Abstract

The research object is the term “scientific and technical potential”. The work analyzes the theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding this term. In order to obtain the most complete results during the work, along with the term “scientific and technical potential”, such interrelated categories as “economic potential”, “innovative potential”, “scientific and technological potential”, “scientific and production potential”, “scientific potential” and “production potential” were addressed. Theoretical research methods of analysis and synthesis were used in the work. The result of the study is the authors’ approach, which allows systematizing the relationship of the above mentioned terms and theoretically substantiating the understanding of scientific and technical potential as an essential part of the economic (market) potential, which consists of the formed components with an argumentation of the most important conditions for its successful implementation. The practical significance of the results is that they can be used for further scientific and technological potential studies in various sectors and on different levels of the economy.