Yu. V. Solovyov Candidate of Economic Sciences Peoples ' Friendship University of Russia Keywords: technology transfer, APEC, Asia-Pacific region, innovation The United States and Japan are recognized technology leaders in the world and, in particular, in the Asia-Pacific region (APR). However, in recent years, the world market of high technologies has been entered by countries that previously mainly imported technologies. The economic and technological development of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, the emergence in the 1960s of new industrial countries (NIS) of the "first wave", and then the second-fourth, and the emergence of China in the world market indicate the formation of a regional development model that includes an intraregional division of labor in accordance with geographical location, natural resources, and the level of economic development and technological development. page 42 Table 1 Domestic R & D expenditures (calculated at purchasing power parity of national currencies, $ mln) A country 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 China 213 460,1 247 808,3 292 062,9 333 521,6 368731,6 Korea 52172,8 58 379,7 64 862,5 68 051,5 72 266,8 Russia 33 093,5 35 192,1 37911,5 36614,1 39 863,0 Singapore 7218,1 8 359,7 8176,9 8 686,4   USA 410 093,0 428 745,0 436 078,0 456 977,0   Taiwan 25 060,8 27 422,7 29 055,1 30 751,3 32 429,6 Japan 140 607,4 148 389,2 152 325,6 162 347,2 166 861,3 Источник: OECD, Main Science and Technology Indicators: Volume 2015/2. P. 20. The development and economic growth of any country depends on a number of factors that contribute not only to increasing real production volumes, but also to improving the quality of growth, as well as the level of efficiency. In the process of economic development, the list of these factors and the assessment of their importance change. However, for most of the world's leading countries, the development of inno ... Читать далее