The essence, principles, the needs and opportunities of the improvement of the innovation management studies, as well as main priorities and trends of the innovation management specialists education and training systems development are investigated and discussed. Main problems and improvement priorities in the field of innovation management studies, particularly – under contemporary conditions of globalization and in the context of the needs of technological advance, are identified and analyzed. A complex analysis of current situation and of the development of innovation management studies and of innovation management specialists education and training systems modernization processes and problems is presented. Special attention is paid to innovation management specialists education, training and development under contemporary conditions and challenges of globalization, knowledge based society creation, European integration and the European Union’s enlargement, as well as to the needs of the improvement of innovation management studies in accordance with the processes and priorities of the high technology sectors development and activation of the technological advance in general.

The absence of well-founded general and special principles of innovation management studies and  nnovation management specialists education, training and development, as well as the absence of special principles of innovation management studies under contemporary conditions of globalization and in the context of the needs of technological advance could be defined as an especially important scientific, practical and research problem.

An in-depth analysis of innovation management specialists’ development principles and practical experiences in the area of innovation management specialists education and training is provided.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/bm.2016.33