A Methodology for Assessing Resource Potential of Innovation-Oriented Agricultural Enterprises

Abstract

The article outlines the main stages of the procedure for quantitative assessment of resource potential of innovation-oriented agricultural enterprises taking into account the content of the concept of “enterprise resource potential”. These stages include assessment of the current state of the resource base (which involves determining quantitative and qualitative parameters of resources and resource productivity); quantitative measurement of resource use effectiveness; assessment of extent of using the potential. It is found that the peculiarity of the methodical approach to assessing resource potential of innovation-oriented agricultural commodity producers is determined by the need to investigate the capacity of their available resources to provide a sufficient (i.e., potentially possible) level of their innovation activity. It is determined that such an analysis should be carried out on the basis of comparing the results of the innovation activity of an economic entity and its competitors. There singled out methods for assessing the resource potential, including methods of structural-functional analysis, fuzzy logic, statistical and economic methods, methods of rationing, correlation analysis, integral assessment, taxonomic analysis, matrix methods, DEA analysis method.

Keywords

• potential
• resource potential
• agricultural enterprises
• innovations
• assessment of resource potential