Given is the of cooperation of Russian and Slovak economists, reprezentatives of St. Peterburg University and Department of Economics of the University of Žilina in Žilina. The creative cooperation of two collectives has been running for 5 years. The collective monograph was conceived 4 years ago. The name of topic was selected randomly. Infrastructue as a general condition of of production represents the most important component of socio-economic development. The known formula of four "I" includes invesment, innovation, institutions and capital. Globalization and infrastructure development is the most important condition of globalization presuming the movement freedom /mobility/ of labor and capital. Globalization and infrastructure are dialectically interdepedent and the theoretical analysis of this combination is interesting and perspective. The author team tried to generlise the results of 5 yearsof creative collaboration in this monograph. The book contais a wide range of issues of infrastructure development in the conditions of mglobalization. A specific attention is on the Analysis of traditional elements of infrastructure /transport, energy/, and aslo on the actual infratructure components /internet, etc./. Z obsahu INTRODUCTION 1. GLOBALIZATION - THE STRATEGIC DIRECTION OF THE SOCIETY S DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOCIETY S DEVELOPMENT IN THE XXI CENTURY 2. INFRASTRUCTUE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION 3. INFRASTRUCTURAL SUPPORT OF INNOVATIVE ECONOMY 4. BRANCH FEATURES OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE 5. ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES BETWEN RUSSIA AND SLOVAKIA 6. REFERENCES