Economic aspects of providing industry competitiveness by means of design processes improvement

The article deals with problems of increasing of competitiveness of scientific and industrial complex in the transitive economy conditions. The urgency of the issue of the design factor activation in solving problems of competitiveness is grounded. An assessment method of level of design development in Russia is suggested. The conceptual models of improvement of R&D mechanisms as well as complex positioning of design methods in the system of competitiveness ensuring with a glance to global tendencies of the innovative development are considered.