INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY CHARACTERISTICS AS PREREQUISITES OF TECHNOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION OF UKRAINIAN ECONOMICS

The purpose of the article is to summarize the main characteristics of scientific and research development, innovative and innovative technological activities in Ukraine, defining innovation activity directions of the State policy's shortcomings elimination. In the research were used such methods: grouping – to identify general characteristics, condition and trends of development of innovative and technological activities of industrial enterprises in Ukraine; analysis and synthesis - to summarize the problematic aspects, as well as the resource use barriers, increase the volume and improve the efficiency of innovative and technological activities in Ukraine; theoretical generalization - in order to determine the ways of improving the efficiency of state innovation and technological politics. Indices of innovative activity in industry of Ukraine, introduction of innovations by industrial enterprises, structural characteristics of development of innovation activity by industries of domestic industry were characterized. Characteristics of expenditures of industrial enterprises on innovation and technological activity are given. Volumes and dynamics of innovative products implementation in the Ukrainian economics are evaluated. The structure of innovation active enterprises in the sectors of entrepreneurship – small, medium, and large, is characterized. The results of analyzing the resource provision of innovative-technological activity in Ukraine in the mainstream of its positive and negative aspects by components: background, volumes and efficiency are presented. A new approach to analyze the resource provision of innovation and technological activity in Ukraine, the peculiarity of which is to compile the matrix: (1) the positive aspects and disadvantages of resource provision; (2) preconditions, volumes and efficiency of resource provision of innovation and technological activity. It is concluded that the bodies of State administration in Ukraine need to realize a more active policy focused on increasing the level of economic agents motivation to implement innovation and technological activities and embodiment of its results in Economic practice, improvement of personnel and financial support of enterprises and organizations that perform scientific and research work, strengthening their cooperation with the enterprises of basic types of economic activity.