TRENDS OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT AT ENTERPRISES OF AGRICULTURAL COMPLEX
The active economic transformations, caused by the global financial crisis, prompted many business entities to reconsider their positions in planning the indicators of various spheres of their activities (from production to management) both in the current and strategic perspective, focusing not only on personal achievements and world experience, but also actual trends within a particular type of activity. Accordingly, the effectiveness of detection and analysis of current trends inherent in a particular sphere of the economy depends on the efficiency of the economic entities functioning located there. The study of the innovation management issue was conducted on the example of enterprises of the agro-industrial complex in the Republic of Tatarstan in 2010-2016. At the same time, probabilistic forecasts for 2017-2018 were compiled. The following methods were used for the research: analytical, graphic, economic-mathematical and abstract-logical. As a result of the study, the following conclusions were obtained: in the period from 2012 to 2016, the activity of the economic entities of the Russian Federation increased substantially (by more than 35%) in the aspect of modernizing their management processes; the actual tendencies of innovation management at the enterprises of the agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2012-2016 were: increased emphasis on the introduction of managerial innovations with a minimum payback period (no more than one year); activation of the development of original managerial innovations by involving the human resources of agro-industrial enterprises; implementation of the developed managerial innovations only with the involvement of professional consultants. In the resultant part of the study, in order to improve the efficiency of innovation management, it was suggested to approach the issue of studying the above-mentioned trends more comprehensively and plan its activities taking into account the nature of their progress, as well as the impact of a complex of factors of the external and internal environment.