Problems of creating the innovation-oriented institutional structure of the modern higher education system in Russia

The purpose of the study is to examine the problems of creating the innovation-oriented institutional structure of the modern higher education system in Russia. The research is based on the general scientific methods that involve the system-based, institutional and evolutionary approaches to addressing issues. The nature and substantive aspects of the above-mentioned problems are reviewed through the prism of the establishment and development of a new-type economic system determining a specific area of social reproduction as a fundamental basis and a strategic tool for implementation, which implies generation, distribution, redistribution and assimilation of new knowledge. This, in fact, demonstrates the industrial mode of production, use and distribution of the productive, transformational value of new knowledge, intensifies the entire process, creates the favorable environment for the institutional dynamics of the national economic system. The research findings can be used as a conceptual basis when devising programs and projects for the innovative development of the Russian economy. In the modern context, a synergistic set of knowledge in the post-industrial economy of a new-type society becomes as important as the traditional scope of the developed economic systems. Therefore, a special reproductive role of the system of higher education is updated.