Abstract. Modern nanomaterials as well as the other advanced materials are aimed at scaled production application due to their unique physical and chemicals properties and the improved performance of final products, therefore at enforcing technological and economic progress of the countries. The article focuses on current state and key indicators of development of the world nanomaterials market, its key drivers and restraints, modern structure, emerging trends and prospects. Selected foreign and Russian databases, providing information on nanomaterials, which are applied in industrial production, and final products manufactured with the use of nanomaterials or nanotechnology are examined in the article. The authors come to the conclusion that information asymmetry, heterogeneity and even inconsistency of the information in the databases exist, thus making it difficult to obtain relevant business information both for manufacturers and consumers. These factors hinder development of nanoindustry in the Russian Federation, as well as national and regional markets for nano-enabled consumer products.

collaboRation as a foRm of knowledgebased economy oRganization The object field of knowledge-based economy is formed by appropriate real system of relations in production, distribution, exchange, and consumption reflecting its innovative and creative character. The variety of forms of institutions, organizations, and information are becoming the factors of the structuring, functioning, and evolving of knowledge-based economy in a global scale. Collaboration is attracting more and more attention from both researchers and experts in economics, politics, law, sociology, culture as a fast emerging and efficient but underexplored form of relations among subjects of knowledge-based economy. Collaboration is an appropriate to the nature of knowledge-based economy form of cooperation, which is detailed according to its subjects, objects, levels, and scale, spheres and industries, sectors and segments. Collaboration provides both intensive and extensive development of VI technological mode creating totally new types and generations of products and services. The diversity of local and regional, inter-firm and international forms of collaboration is accelerating in all spheres of global economy. Despite over simplifying, contemporary science has to think over the essence and evolutionary potential of collaboration as well as to work out justified recommendations for the practice.

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