Types of organizational support for corporate innovation activity in engineering companies

Abstract

The value of engineering as a leading industry in innovation in the country has been grounded. According to the authors, engineering brings together a large number of diverse businesses, making it impossible to use the same tools of organization of innovation at engineering enterprises of different types. A classification of engineering companies in terms of market characteristics, characteristics of the technological process and requirements to end-users has been provided. The features of innovation of each enterprise group have been determined. A principle approach to determining the type of organizational support for innovation activities of each group of enterprises has been described. Four basic types of organizational support for innovation have been defined. The features of the components of organizational support for each group of engineering enterprises have been studied.