Abstract: The updated Strategy of Scientific and Technological Development sets the task of forming an effective management system in the field of science, technology and production, as well as making investments in this area, and defines certain vectors of its development. The implementation of the provisions of the Strategy, which determine the need to change approaches to the formation and implementation of the scientific and technological agenda, financing of scientific research and development, scientific (scientific and technical) expertise, evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of scientific and technological activities, involves the transformation of the institutional and legal basis of scientific and technological development. The article analyzes the provisions of the updated strategy on improving public administration in the field of scientific and technological development, and forms separate proposals for improving the legal and institutional foundations of public administration of scientific and technological development. The research used the following methods: formal legal, formal logical, interpretation of law, as well as general scientific methods. As a result of research, conclusion is substantiated that the change in strategic attitudes in the field of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation, the achievement of the goals and objectives of the strategy of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation implies a holistic modernization of the regulatory environment in the field of scientific, technical and innovative/industrial activities, activities for the introduction of high-tech technologies, including those aimed at improving the legal regime of intellectual property and its management, budget legislation, reducing the risks of business interaction with government organizations, creating a favorable legal climate for activities in the field of scientific and technological development, minimizing administrative and bureaucratic burden, primarily on state scientific and educational organizations. Separate proposals have been formulated on the directions and content of improving legislation.

Abstract: This article examines the concept of “digital environment of trust”. Elucidation of content of this concept is substantiated by the need to understand the task set in the National Project “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” aimed at building the digital environment of trust from the perspective of the science of information law. Achievement of the required effectiveness of the project is virtually impossible in the conditions of ambiguity of the applied conceptual-terminological apparatus. The concepts and related terms “electronic”, “digital”, “information”, as well as their derivatives in the science of information law did not received due theoretical reflection, which resulted in their incoherent application. The goal of this work is to form an appropriate scientific representation of the content and essence of the concept of “digital environment of trust”, as well as the possibility of granting it the status of the category of information law. The author explores several methodological approaches towards elucidation of content of the concept of “digital environment of trust”. Taking into consideration the views developed in legal science regarding the content and meaning of legal categories that comprise the categorical apparatus of scientific knowledge of legal phenomena, the concept of “digital environment of trust”, in a broad sense, implies the combination of information resources in digital form; the interaction with such and (or)  their use ensure for legal subjects information security, consistency and unambiguity of the rules and conditions of such interaction, as well as guarantee due diligence and equality of the participants of information exchange. It is demonstrated that the concept of “digital environment” and its derivatives, which are associated with the initial stage of development of new technical means of information exchange and conditioned by it, reflect just the technical and technological fundamental principles of emergence of the modern information law. Therefore, the concept of “digital environment of trust” cannot be addressed as a “basic” scientific category of information law, i.e. overarching, fundamental concept that determines the future scientific research of information relations.