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Integration of Business and Higher Education: Application of Experience of World Universities
The subject of this article is the tools of interaction between educational institutions and business structures, which are the stepping stone for the training of sought-after specialists for a business that needs innovative developments, new ideas and highly qualified employees. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to improve the tools of interaction between universities and business in a modern innovative economy. Methods. In the course of work, the methods of dialectical cognition were used, which made it
possible to conduct a comparative analysis and synthesis of theoretical and practical material; and the methods of empirical research (data comparison, collection and study). The grouping methods and the systematic approach were used for information processing and systematization. Results. The need for the integration of education and business is substantiated; general trends in the interaction of universities and private corporations in foreign countries are identified; barriers to cooperation between universities and business in the Russian Federation are systematized; clarifications are proposed in the documents of strategic planning of the Russian Federation, in particular, in the state program "Education Development". The author concluded that the implementation of the training process should meet the challenges of the modern innovative economy, consider the trends of digitalization and changing needs of business
structures in the qualifications of employees. Relevance. The practical relevance of the work lies in the possibility of using the results obtained in the activities of federal executive bodies when specifying the
target indicators and key activities of the state program "Education Development", in the higher education institutions in order to ensure the interaction with business structures.