Bìznes Inform (Dec 2018)
The Innovative Activity of Industrial Enterprises of Ukraine in the Context of Industry 4.0
Abstract
The article is aimed at analyzing the tendencies of innovative activity of industrial enterprises of Ukraine and developing ways to increase their competitiveness based on the Industry 4.0. As a result of analysis of statistical data the negative tendency of growth of the share of extractive industry along with reduction of processing in the general structure of industrial production of Ukraine during 2010–2017 is identified. It is determined that the innovative activity is given insufficient attention on the part of the national industrial enterprises. The share of enterprises engaged in innovation, from 2007 to 2017 has grown by only 2%, and the cost of production preparation for the introduction of innovations tends to decrease. The ways of increase of innovative activity of industrial enterprises are proposed to be carried out by means of introduction of conceptual bases of the Industry of 4.0, e.g.: Smart-Enterprise, Digitalization, Digital Economy, IoT, Big Data and others. The basic measures on elimination of problems connected with introduction of innovations in activities of enterprises are defined as follows: creation of a uniform network (association) for communication of both developers of innovations and business; the State support of innovatively active enterprises in the form of interest-free crediting, preferential taxation, etc.; stimulation of attraction of foreign investments in the processing industry of Ukraine; creating conditions for infrastructure development by pooling the efforts of the financial, information and consulting sectors; training of highly qualified personnel, etc.
