QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF INNOVATION ACTIVITY IN RUSSIAN REGIONS

Abstract

An approach to the study of innovation and its evaluation in quantitative and qualitative terms has been developed, the analysis based on statistical indicators and the method of expert assessments on the example of small and medium-sized business has been done. The results of the innovation research on legal, financial and personnel matters, despite its specificity, reveal a slight connection of the regional business with innovation, estimate low innovative activity of the most enterprises of small and medium-sized business. It gives the opportunity to make adjustments in the innovation activity of enterprises, especially in the sphere of integration activities with the regional administration on the point of innovation development of the region. The purpose: representing of innovation and its constituents in the quantitative and qualitative indicators; it helps to characterize them entirely in the Russian practice in general and in small and medium business on the regional example. Method or methodology of work: scientific (abstract-logical analysis and synthesis), monograph, economic-mathematical methods, statistical methods (groups), as well as the method of expert estimations. Results: quantitative and qualitative parameters characterizing the most relevant aspects of innovative activity in the Russian Federation have been revealed. Practical implications: the results are useful for the management bodies of regional administration and economical subjects engaged in innovative activities.

Keywords

• инновационная деятельность
• инновационная активность
• количественный и качественный анализ
• статистические показатели
• метод экспертных оценок