PROSPECTS OF CREATING INNOVATIVE BUSINESS STRUCTURES IN THE METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY

The transition of the most developed countries' societies to a new phase based primarily on the creation, dissemination and use of knowledge, i.e. innovative development, has become a typical feature of modern economies. Activating innovation requires fundamental changes in the structure of social production and education and in the system of management and organization as well as the coordination of activities, the exchange of information, the mutual interaction of enterprises and the transfer of technologies. The effective and controlled mutual cooperation of selected international scientific organizations, scientific and research centres and companies leads to reduced costs of product innovation through the use of synergies from the mutual cooperation of participating entities, creating an effective environment for sharing and disseminating knowledge, optimizing business processes and streamlining the subject of the innovation process. The article presents the outputs of the project, the aim of which is to analyze the mutual cooperation of selected entities in reducing the cost of developing innovative technology of the electrolysis process at work in the Russian Federation through an association of entities mentioned hereunder.