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The article considers the problems of introduction and use of interdisciplinary approach in the formation of innovative and entrepreneurial universities of the third generation. Interdisciplinary connections, which provide an interdisciplinary approach in the field of education, scientific base, as well as the system of education as a complex of fundamental and taxonomic disciplines are studied in the article. The use of an interdisciplinary approach in the training of future professionals is seen as part of the process of forming their professional competence through the implementation of links with the disciplines of humanities, socio-economic and scientific training. In a competency-based approach, interdisciplinary connections allow knowledge, skills and abilities to be transferred from one area of science and professional activity to another. The interdisciplinary approach is aimed at the connection of disciplines, when the contradictions in the mastery of ideas, methods and techniques of research between sciences are smoothed out and there is a complex use in professional activity of theory and practice obtained on the basis of studied disciplines. Both significant advantages and problems that arise when using an interdisciplinary approach are considered. It is proved that the demand for specialists with universal skills and abilities, formed under the influence of the study and interconnection of disciplines of different fields, is relevant. The necessity of strengthening the role of the interdisciplinary approach in the formation of "third generation" universities as innovative forms of entrepreneurial activity is substantiated. Key words: interdisciplinary approach, competence, integration, innovation, information technology revolution, entrepreneurship.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the particularities of activities of modern “Think Tanks” in the USA as non-governmental scientific research and information analytics organizations, which generate ideas and develop recommendations for national governmental and international institutions providing constructive dialogue on the solution of social, economic and political problems in the “state-business-society” link. They are creative research groups engaged in in-depth investigation of public policy issues and thanks to which it became possible to turn intellectual activity from an individual creative act into a collective effort to create new meanings. In Ukraine, the concept of a “Think Tank” is relatively new for representatives of the scientific community, who still create the majority of significant analytical and forecasting, and political and theoretical concepts. The lack of a full-fledged network of civil society institutions and a sufficient accessibility to media resources and sites for their promotion with the aim of influencing economic decision-making and political processes is associated with the lack of transparency in the activities of state establishment and the rejection of political elites still professing the principle of statism (concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government). Nowadays, the use of the symbiosis of the potential of the scientific community and the developments of Think Tanks, as analytical centers, is one of the critical conditions for institutional reforms in Ukraine, an effective domestic economic and foreign political strategy for the country’s development. Unfortunately, the process of realizing that the very modern Think Tanks are the means of social engineering in general and in political counseling in particular, and of the provision of independent political and socioeconomic expertise, is slow and contradictory.

In recent years, cloud computing has ceased to be exotic in the field of entrepreneurial activity. More companies are moving their business processes to a virtual environment. "Clouds" become the place where information is stored, processed and from which it is transmitted instantaneously to any place in the world, the time for making business-decisions is shortened, and "paper technologies" disappear. The creation of a unified world network market economy - geo-economics and its infrastructure - is based on repeatedly increasing both the scale of information flows and the volumes of created digital content. Currently, cloud computing is used in various spheres of economic and commercial activities, from education and medicine to banking and service sector. Flexibility and availability of resources makes cloud computing ideal for business structures that have to respond to changing business needs more quickly and cope with current tasks more effectively. The SaaS (Software as a Service) market is developing rapidly, new services that are designed to simplify the life of industry businesses are opening every day, so very soon none of the trading enterprises will be able to do without this business tool. In this case, all cloud models – public, private or hybrid – have advantages and technical characteristics that are attractive to different organizations depending on their needs. In addition to corporate business, this service is of interest to small and medium-sized businesses – to those companies that do not have their own qualified system administrators, companies from the service sector – beauty salons, car services, small shops, transport companies, and others enterprises that are not related to IT.

Nowadays business is faced with the need to search the innovative corporate management models in connection with new technological challenges associated with the accelerated transformation of all components of the company's business activities. The formation of business sustainability is considered in the context of the search for effective innovative models of the new technological order Industry 4.0. The key aspect in this perspective is the development and implementation of fundamentally new principles of change management, including the principles of ethics and corporate culture. The main objective of the article is to study both innovative and modified classical corporate management models developed according to new technological challenges, especially global digitalization, as well as taking into account the principles of sustainable development. The introduction of corporate models and sustainable development strategies implies both modern technological optimization of the organization and a radical restructuring of the management concept of «business sustainability».Elastic digital workspaces, telecommuting with an emphasis on culture, technology and communications used at great speed and scale, investing in hyper-automation to reduce the impact of system failures, freeing up human resources and streamlining IT staff management are the current trends in enterprise models. An urgent challenge for business processes is the need to quickly respond to the pace of global structural changes, which include not only internal changes that provide both increased efficiency and release of capital, but also collaboration with ecosystem partners to move to a model with limited resources and the least vulnerable dependencies.