Selected Directions in Analysis of Innovative Activities in Enterprises

Abstract

The primary focus of this study is on theoretical and empirical analysis of selected directions of innovative activities carried out in enterprises. The significance of these problems is connected with the role performed by innovations in improving and maintaining competitiveness in enterprises. The investigations presented in the study focused on the importance and manifestations of innovativeness of enterprises as well as highlighting contemporary characteristics of innovations. The empirical part of the study analyzed innovative activity of enterprises based on such criteria as level of outlays on innovations incurred by the enterprise, equipping the enterprise in means of production processes automation as well as the level of technology transfer and using the technology. The empirical examinations were carried out based on the data contained in the Statistical Yearbooks published by the Central Statistical Office for the years 2008-2012.

The Importance of the Regions’ Economic Activity Evaluation in Russia, 2012-2016

“…The integral indicators method is rather popular for evaluating the region's economic entities' innovation activity level. There are very many approaches and integral indicators (Duplenko 2016), (Krainov 2014), (Grabowska 2014), (Zedtwitz 2016). Besides, despite the diversity of approaches to calculating the innovation activity integral indicator, the main principle remains universal and implies using the given figures with their further functional aggregation.…”

Formation of the estimation system of the innovative activity in the regions of South Russia

“…To date, there is a sufficient number of techniques that integrate both the above-mentioned indicators imported from the official statistics database, and separately developed indicators. Among the existing methods for the formation of an integrated assessment of innovation activity, we can single out both the methods of domestic [1,2,3,4,5], and foreign scientists [6,7,8,9], which allow to calculate the number of important integral indicators reflecting the level of development of innovative potential, innovative infrastructure of the region, as well as the effectiveness of innovation. The advantage of these methods is their adaptability to the existing bases of official statistics, together with this it makes it possible to compare regions in a single group of complex commensurable indicators.…”