History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back Correlation of the Tradition and Innovation in the Foreign Historiography: Theoretical Approaches to Understanding of the Problem at the end of 1950–1990 S Kandor R.S. Kudaeva S.G. The paper permits to trace essential changes of scientific representations of correlation of tradition and innovation in theoretical researches of the western scientists. The big adaptive possibilities of tradition are ascertained and in the tradition and innovation contact, traditional institutes change so that to correspond to the modern validity, but new institutes also are transformed during adaptation to tradition. Tradition and innovation are interconnected and interdepended. Keywords: tradition and innovation; correlation; modernity; development; stabilization; regulation; transformation; interconnection. Contacts: E-mail: kandor.ruslan@mail.ru Pp. 67-75.