[Methodological bases for the control of competition in research in medical radiology].

One of the problems of raising the efficacy and acceleration of investigations and developments under the conditions of scientific technical progress is competitive power of products and technologies. The problem is especially acute in international economic cooperation when one must choose an object of license and lines of research promoting its development. The existing mechanisms of control do not ensure reliable solution of this problem and need to be improved. The paper is concerned with the consideration of routine approaches to control of competitive power; new mechanisms based on algorithmic methods using a clustering analysis of patent and scientific medical information have been proposed. The author shows a possibility of building up the functional structure of research pursued in one or several institutions involved in the development of a multipurpose problem, and the choice of directions of research, among them potential objects for license sale and concluding an agreement of international cooperation on a contract basis.