Science-Innovation Policy – The Most Powerful Contemporary Lever of the State for High Competitive Economic Development

In the “new economy” based on knowledge, the science-innovation policy of the state plays a primary and key role. An attempt is made to analyze and generalize at generally valid (principle) level this policy in USA, EC and Bulgaria as a specific element of the qualitatively new model of economy and society, which entered the developed countries in the 90s of XX century; to evaluate its impact on the contemporary competitive economic development of the analyzed countries; to motivate the unconditional necessity of far-sighted and complex strategy for social-economic development of Bulgaria in the qualitatively new world, in which the science-innovation policy of the state is a decisive factor of development.