Novelty and traditions in competence, the approach and mainstream of modernization of the russian higher education
In this paper the influence on economic growth of scientific and technical progress (STP) is analyzed. Such concepts as «the human capital» and its role in creation of innovative economy, "the competence" are considered. Authors allocate necessary conditions of creation of innovative economy, one of which is the new paradigm of education, which is based on the competence approach. The basic tendencies in higher education, including necessity of possession by graduates of high school both professional (personal computers), and common cultural competence (CC) are analyzed. Scientific novelty consists in the complex analysis of uniform, multicomplex process - economic growth on the basis of creation of innovative economy, which indispensable condition is realization of a new paradigm of the education founded on the competence approach.