FEATURES OF ECONOMIC ENTITIES INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MODERN STAGE DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION IN INFRASTRUCTURE OF UKRAINE

The article is devoted to the economic entities problematics of innovation activity in the context of modern stage development innovation in infrastructure of Ukraine, marked by the influence of the knowledge economy. The open innovation paradigm suggests that the vast majority of promising innovative technologies in the world are developed with the help of such innovation infrastructure facilities as: higher education and research institutions, technology parks, research and production complexes, etc. One of the key factors for manufacturing enterprise market success nowadays appears to be the establishment of interaction with the marked objects, obtaining and mastering the technologies developed in them. At the present stage, the innovation activity of the participants in the innovation infrastructure is defined by the level of their knowledge potential. Considering the above, the need to analyze the state and prospects for the economic entities innovation activities development in Ukraine becomes relevant and the results of which may later be useful for improving the domestic innovation infrastructure and forming the vision of the innovation process. The article implements a number of tasks: the prerequisites of innovation activity in Ukraine are assessed with the assistance of international rankings and comparisons, the main results of innovation activities of economic entities by sectors of its implementation are analyzed, and the state of financing innovation activities in Ukraine is considered. The theoretical value of the article is to highlight economic entities distinguishing features of the innovation activities and reflect their influence on the development of innovation infrastructure in Ukraine. The applied value of the work is the selection of the main directions for economic entities to improve innovation activities efficiency in the context of modern stage development innovation in infrastructure of Ukraine.