Methodology of the evolutionary economics in application to the engineering problems

Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI), Novocherkassk, Russia

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Abstract

Authors present an idea that the consulting engineering services are a type of knowledge mediation institution. This institution decreases a possibility of the participants’ opportunistic behaviour during the purchase and sale deal making. It’s actual, first of all, for the knowledge products, such as innovation projects and R&D results, and other search goods. In the article authors present a set of measurement instruments to make a said kind of valuation. Concept of the set is based on one of the evolutionary economics’ methodologies: a technological structure method. As a criteria for attributing a project to one or another technological structure are used a level of the real technology’s compliance with the extremely efficient, information materialization level, dimension scale of the forming processes and dominant management concept. The approach gives a possibility to minimize the possibility of the existence of the innovation processes participants’ opportunistic behaviour, and to increase the efficiency of the innovation activities.