NEW FORMS OF ORGANISATION OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY AT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
The article considers the factors that prevent the process of informal organization of innovative activity and the ways to overcome them in Russian higher educational institutions. New forms of organization of innovative activities at higher educational institutions have been introduced: these include interdisciplinary project teams and interdepartment communities of practice. The supervision of innovative activity in these structures is to be performed by university technology transfer offices. The creative potential of university scientists could be increased due to knowledge exchange and social capital formation