The paper describes the features of the stage of goal-setting of the development of knowledge-intensive industries, which is associated with the identification of technological areas of advanced development. The decision support scheme is based on the regular use of the principles of eexpertise to solve the problems of analyzing the acceptability of a system of indicators of development programs and the formation of priorities and tasks of managing the creation of a scientific and technical reserve. Addition of basic multicriteria analysis technics with cognitive modelling helps to analyze a strategy of one industry in conjunction with other related direction of science-technical development. The paper consists of three parts: discussion of particularities of goal-setting tasks on the illustrative example, description of decision support scheme combining multicriteria evaluation method with an evaluation of influences on cognitive-map-based-model, an illustrative example description.