Innovation Activities of Modern Enterprises of the High-Tech Sector of the Economy

Abstract

According to some national and foreign researchers, businesses can be conditionally referred to the high-tech sector of the economy today, for example in terms of such an indicator as amounts of costs (in excess of the established level) for research and development (R&D) in relation to the product output volume, added value or to the amount of basic production factors. In the current environment, businesses of the high-tech economic sector (which is an indicator of the development of countries in the field of high technology) face one of the challenges — to increase the level of innovation activity. The article describes some factors that influence the innovation activity of the high-tech businesses (in particular, instrument-making businesses) in Russia. The higher engineering and technical education problems the existence of which affects the availability of highly qualified personnel of modern enterprises have been studied, and the student survey results are provided.