摘要：The article features considerations of a notion ‘innovative competence’ in educational institutions through the analysis of ‘competence’ and ‘innovation’, where the time category is prioritized. It is the time that enables new innovations. What does influence the emergence of something new? When does the new turn into something not new (nominal)? When does the nominal become old or traditional? These issues require further considerations from methodological and qualimetric educational perspectives. The presented materials make us search for solutions to raised questions, as the answers will let to look at innovative competence from a design perspective. Besides, the author uncovers hierarchy of notions: “Research competence” and “Professionalization”. The correlation of innovative competences (professional competences of school and college graduates) can be referred to the intermediate results of this consideration. Such competences include stages of professionalization (in accordance with E.F. Zeer’s theories), and the importance of innovative competences in the process of professionalization, where the highest point is professional skills of a pedagogue.
