Development of technical creativity of engineers: structural model and organizational and pedagogical conditions for implementation

The article is devoted to the formation of technical creativity, which is extremely popular and important for increasing the innovative potential of the state economy at the current stage of technological development of the state, which is characterized by the intensification of the introduction of cross-cutting and critical technologies that affect national security and increase the effectiveness of import substitution programs, industrial transformation, digital platforms, medicine and biometric ecosystems. In the context of the digital economy and its connection with the ideas of strengthening technological leadership and developing creative industries programs, the requirements for the system of higher engineering education are becoming more complex; more fundamental requirements are formulated at the state level in terms of training specialists in the engineering and technical profile, which accordingly entails changes in the organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of professionally significant characteristics of students in the engineering and technical profile. As a result of this study, a structural model of technical creativity is presented, including motivational, cognitive, operational and reflexive-evaluative components; organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of technical creativity are proposed and emphasized. The conclusions are also substantiated that technical creativity should act as an independent goal of pedagogical influence. Its development requires updating methods, programs and diagnostic tools focused on project activity, digital flexibility and interdisciplinarity. The results of this study have scientific and practical value, can be used in the development of educational programs in the engineering profile, the creation of digital and design laboratories, the formation of assessment tools and taxonomies, indicators and criteria for measuring the formation of technical creativity, and can also be applied in the system of advanced training for teachers of engineering disciplines in creative industries, university accelerators, business incubators.