Intellectual Potential of Kyrgyzstan

The article is a study of the intellectual potential of Kyrgyzstan, its state and development opportunities. The author proposes a methodology for analyzing intellectual potential based on five groups of criteria: standard indicators of international rankings and indices (human development index, innovative development index, Hirsch index); the state of the socio-cultural environment for the development of intellectual potential; the state of the educational infrastructure for the development of intellectual potential; the level of scientific impetus (the presence of scientific infrastructure and scientific community, scientific elite); state support for science (expenditures on scientific research and development work, state strategies for the development of science and education). Based on the analysis of statistical data and government documents, the most vulnerable areas of the development of the country’s intellectual potential are identified: insufficient environment for the development of intellectual potential, insufficient scientific impetus, insufficient availability and quality of educational infrastructure, insufficient conditions and opportunities for the reproduction and development of the intellectual elite, in particular the scientific elite of the country. It is concluded that Kyrgyzstan has not yet formed the institutional foundations of a unified scientific policy that would contribute to solving the problems of innovative development of the country and ensuring its scientific and technological sovereignty.