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The main purpose of this article is to publish the results of studying the experience of the advanced East Asian countries in achieving the competitive advantages of the national innovation system in the process of improving the information society (IS).Achieving this goal predetermined the need of articulating the author's interpretation of the evolution of the National Innovation System (NIS) into the National Innovation Ecosystem (NIES). In the course of the research, general scientific principles of cognition of economic phenomena were used - methods of systemic, logical, structural, factorial and comparative analysis. Result of the research is that on the basis of generalization of foreign and domestic experience, practical implementation of the mechanism of achieving competitive advantages as a partnership of scientists, the state and business has been identified at the present stage of the IS. The main conclusion from the study: the greatest competitive reserve is created, according to the author, by the evolution of NIS in the NIES. The essence of this evolution is the achievement of economic development based on the creation and implementation of such innovations that provide economic growth with respect for the environment, and through the nationwide unification of interactive networks created on the basis of innovative clusters and encompassing all leading actors (scientists, representatives of business and state structures).