Аннотация:Development of the advanced countries' economy, which sets the world economy's trajectory, demonstrates growth industries with a high level of production intellectualization. Transition to a continuous innovation process, the emergence of epoch-making technology means forming new requirements for level and quality of life, the comfort of the environment. The crisis of modern development paradigm about which it is possible to talk due to long-existing and still an actual problem: depletion of vital natural resources, climate change, social inequality, poverty, unemployment, makes the world community continue the scientific search of acceptable solutions. The article shows a science-based approach with arguments, which united high requirements for the level of scientific and technological development and the population's quality of life at each level of the social-ecological-economic system. Such an approach formed within the concept of quality economy, in which base from the moment of its emergence, included metrology, standardization, and quality management. Framework formed by a quality economy identifies new lines of quality, opening through metrology prism, as the science of measurements, standardization based on joint achievements of science, technologies, and practical experience, which is the basis for long-term development, quality management focused on meeting quality requirements and its improving. Under the conditions of the new development paradigm based on the knowledge economy and which opens to the future, the quality economy is connecting the link necessary for full work of the economic system in a drastically changing world.