There is given the retrospective analysis of establishment and development of the system of the USA higher school. Based on the premises at different historic stages there is considered the social and economic conditionality, marked out the structural peculiarities of the USA higher school. There are noted the main tendencies of development of the USA higher education at the modern stage.

By the example of the USA there is given the retrospective analysis of the socio-economical conditionality of the innovational processes and government regulation in the sphere of innovational development in the USA. There are considered the main factors that influence the development of the innovational system of the USA in the second half of the XX century. There are found out the urgent issues of development and priority guidelines of the public policy in the sphere of higher education at the modern stage.