Authors: S.V. Frumusaki

Title of the article: Theoretical foundations for researching infrastructure as a scientific category

Year: 2025, Issue: 4, Pages: 4-11

Branch of knowledge: 5.2.1 Economics

Index UDK: 338.1

DOI: 10.26730/2587-5574-2025-4-4-11

Abstract: This article examines the theoretical aspects of researching infrastructure as a scientific category, demonstrating the evolution of this definition and revealing its essence and content. A classification of diverse theoretical concepts in infrastructure research is presented. The author substantiates the proposition that most theoretical concepts equate infrastructure as a set of material objects, primarily social capital, the national economic task of reproducing which is assigned to the state, which forms the corresponding institutions. The author presents a unique perspective that, unlike previously known approaches, highlights the role of reproductive infrastructure in the national reproductive system—as the embodiment of a complex of organizational, economic, institutional, and financial conditions for accelerating the renewal of fixed capital (increasing its technical level through autonomous investments), capital accumulation in industries creating the means of production and technology, and the transfer of savings into investment.

Key words: infrastructure reproductive infrastructure investment innovation institutional infrastructure cluster approach renewal of assets

Receiving date: 22.09.2025

Approval date: 15.10.2025

Publication date: 23.12.2025

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