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Purposeful and reasonable state vision of the long-term tourism development strategy determines the success of a country in the world market of tourist services. Many countries have officially approved program documents that clearly outline the main goals and objectives of the state policy in the sphere of tourism, highlighting the resource potential, recreational infrastructure and preferred consumer markets, but there may be no idea of respecting the interests of domestic consumers. The maintenance of local tourism infrastructure is becoming an increasingly important prerequisite for the country’s competitiveness, as mass tourism is now replaced by individual travels. The article is aimed at studying the dependencies between the main macroeconomic indicators of the tourism industry, assessing the efficiency of foreign trade. The correlation-regression and cluster analysis has been used in order to confirm or refute the hypothesis if the effectiveness of the state support of the national tourism industry is dependent on the stable functioning of the domestic tourism market, e.g. stimulation of travels by residents. Based on the main macroeconomic indicators of the tourism industry for 136 countries of the world and overview of some national tourism development program, the analysis output has rejected the direct correlation between the support of the domestic market and export potential of the national tourism industry, but has proved the significance of the inner consumer power during the periods of downturns in the global economy for strengthening the country’s export potential.

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Abstract. The paper provides results of a comparative analysis of the level of innovation activity in European countries based on official statistics. A cluster analysis of R&D expenditure share in GDP allowed the authors to identify five groups of countries with very high (Denmark, Finland, Germany), high (Belgium, France, Slovenia), middle (the United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia), low (Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria) and very low (Malta, Serbia, Ukraine) level of innovation activity. The paper grounds cluster borders, discusses common features of the countries within each cluster and their changes for past decade and proves the need for borrowing the best practices of the EU member countries to increase efficiency of innovation management for countries with low and very low level of innovation activity. The authors have made the proposals related to the ways of enhancing innovation management. The paper grounds the proposed approaches to the identification and accurate assessment of companies' expenses and intangible assets arising from commercialization of innovative implementations. The paper discloses the authors' position upon recognition of cost and expenses in financial accounting and management system, grounds benefits and suggests justified solutions for different cases depending on the nature of innovation process and requirements of the standards of accounting and financial statements.

The article considers the essence of the process of practice-oriented concept as a principle of the professional training quality of the future specialists. Socialization is singled out and considered through the interdisciplinary concept in professional education. Socialization is defined as a successful component of the future specialists' professional education. One of the ways of professional education of the future specialists is covered — participation in social projects of the higher education institutions. Emphasis is placed on the peculiarities of the socialization and professional education of the future specialists through the social project's organization. The motivational and innovative components of socialization in the professional education of future specialists are studied. The results of the experimental study are described.

This study is aimed at the analysis and development of methodologies to ensure and manage the quality of higher education. There have been radical changes and transformation of the postindustrial society into a global information society on the basis of knowledge and competence, and the increased external demands from society to the result of higher education have significantly influenced the development of higher education at the end of the 20th century. Accordingly, the roles, organizational forms and ways of functioning of higher education institutions (HEIs) have changed as one of the basic elements of the higher education system, ensuring the development of economic, social, cultural and global, national and regional communities as a whole. The current system of education is characterized by the virtual absence of institutions responsible for the results of their activities. Not sufficiently independent forms and mechanisms of participation of citizens, employers, professional associations on the development of educational policy have not been developed. There are no structures for an independent assessment of the quality of education.As a result of adaptation to the global information society, the classical model of the HEI was transformed, which manifested itself in the formation of a new type of HEI. The vector of transformation of the models of HEI were not only accompanied by diverse organizational change and revisions of the missions of universities, but also by the formation of strategic management as a factor in-system with the release of its organizational and functional entity. In the article, as a form of presentation of scientific methodologies of social processes and objects, a triad hierarchical model is proposed, represented in the form of a hierarchical system containing levels: system, structure, inter-system exchange, movement and applied fields of knowledge. Thus, the essence of the approach is to develop a triadic concept and its application to describe the structures of social objects and processes and construct different classes of models to study their properties and improve management processes, taking into account the human factor.In the future, the proposed methodology can provide the most appropriate solution to ensure a comprehensive and high-quality higher education.

A business scaling on the basis of outsourcing and creation of an entrepreneurial network is discussed in this article.The network allows to expand the resource capabilities of its member enterprises. This aspect seems significant in the case of the inadequacy of researches that consider the period of the emergence of network structures. The proposed nanocorporation model assumes a network of independent, specialized supplier companies with a small coordinating integrator. In nanocorporations, the core company outsources most of its functions and develops its main competency, specializing in planning, corporate management, and marketing. An expanding affiliate business network provides fast business growth, minimization of costs, high mobility. The article examines the process of creating an entrepreneurial network using the example of three Kazakhstani small and medium-sized businesses. On the basis of the analysis, the stages of the decision-making sequence are proposed while creating a network. Case study method is used as the main one in the work.