The other day I happened to freeze my hands. Yes, not that frostbite, and not frostbite at all, but so, slightly freeze. All right, all right-my gloved fingers froze, so I remembered a story told by a patient at the reception.
«Африка? Как Африка? Тебя не съели? Ну как там? Страшно было? А правда, что у масаев самые длинные... ноги? А ты змею ел? А слона? Слушай, а почему ты там не остался?» — спрашивают меня мои друзья...
The creation of fertile innovative ecological environment in the country is constrained by barriers of a conceptual nature. The article identifies four groups of such barriers. The authors propose a strategy for overcoming them based on a comparison of functions necessary for the innovative development of social practices and the natural mechanisms of a new life birth. This allows us to formulate a number of pragmatic recommendations for creating an innovative eco-environment for a wide range of industries. By analogy with natural dynamics of obstetrics, the approach is called placental
Keywords: Innovation, innovation infrastructure, acceleration, eco-environment, placenta, development.