Ideologiya innovatsionnogo razvitiya i postroenie innovatsionnoy ekonomiki zavisyat ot osoznaniya obshchestvom effektivnosti innovatsiy kak instrumenta uluchsheniya kachestva zhizni sotsiuma v estestvennoy srede obitaniya, kak sredstva zashchity ot prirodnykh kataklizmov. Innovatsionnaya sistema, v svyazi s etim, mozhet stat' instrumentom sozdaniya biosferosovmestimogo khozyaystva, a takzhe instrumentom dlya ustraneniya opasnostey, voznikayushchikh ot novykh tekhnologiy. Voploshchyennye v innovatsionnoy sisteme kontseptsii ustoychivogo razvitiya predstavlyayutsya protivorechivym, slozhnym, no effektivnym instrumentom resheniya krizisnykh problem tekhnogennoy tsivilizatsii. Osnovnymi polozheniyami kontseptsii ustoychivogo razvitiya, kotorye vozmozhno voplotit' v innovatsionnykh sistemakh pri sozdanii novykh tekhnologiy, yavlyayutsya: ekologizatsiya i gumanizatsiya tekhniki, postoyannyy protsess obucheniya obshchestva, osoznanie predelov rosta tekhnologiy na osnove uchyeta budushchikh potrebnostey chelovechestva.