PhD, associate professor Yasinovska I.F.

Kozak S.I.

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine

 

        Innovation company as a factor of economic development in Ukraine

            One of the promising ways of economic growth is the innovative development of the enterprise. For today, the market has a fairly harsh competitive environment, so enterprises must have strong and stable competitive advantages. Regardless of the type of activity, the innovative type of development, of course, remains one of the most promising directions for the development of each enterprise. As practice shows, enterprises that implement innovations have a higher level of output and income, and a high level of their innovation potential indicates the ability of the enterprise to implement any innovative solutions, the company has a clear innovation strategy and effective implementation.

         The development of innovation activity of an enterprise can be restrained under the influence of both internal and external factors. Among the internal factors, one should highlight the lack of an effective system of training and experience in organizing the work of employees in the context of innovation development; the reluctance of entrepreneurs to assume the risks of creating a new product, the unsatisfactory condition of the material base of most industries because of the depreciation of fixed assets; the forcedness of the vast majority of domestic entrepreneurs to rely mainly on equity. External factors of influence should include the lack of effective incentives for entrepreneurship development on an innovative basis, insufficient spending of public funds on science and technology, and so on. As we see, a state plays a big role in the development of this type of entrepreneurship. State regulation should stimulate the development of science and technology, since it is the foundation of modern innovation.

         The importance of introducing innovations into the real economy of Ukraine is difficult to overestimate. Ukraine, in its position in various international rankings, is considered a country with high scientific and technical potential, however, as statistics show, we are far from the first position on the level of innovation.

          According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine in 2016 the share of enterprises engaged in innovations is 18.9% of their total, in 2015 — 17.36%. It should also be noted that sources of funding for innovation activities, which include own financing, financing of the state budget and foreign investors in 2016 amounted to 23229.5 million UAH, in 2015 - 13813.7 UAH 5 million. [3]. We see that innovative entrepreneurship in Ukraine suffers from poor incentives from the state, the government does not always properly manage its resources, in particular, there is a need for a substantial increase in financial support for innovation and the implementation of an effective innovation policy.

         We agree with the opinion of some scholars that it is expedient to systematically introduce a number of direct and indirect financial methods of influencing this process in order to create an effective system of state incentives for innovation development in Ukraine. We consider it necessary to expand in Ukraine a system of financial instruments, levers and incentives for the introduction of domestic developments in the production, activation of innovation and technological development in our country at the expense of: expanding direct state funding in the form of targeted subsidies and grants to enterprises, subventions for small and medium-sized firms, which implement investment projects; provision of special tax credits and privileges to enterprises and institutions of various forms of ownership, which invest their own funds in research, develop progressive environmentally friendly technologies, etc.; implementation of budget reimbursement of expenses at different stages of the innovation process, provision of innovative and technological loans from special funds for the implementation of projects in priority areas. Effective implementation of these mechanisms requires coordination of activities of state bodies, universities, businesses, financial institutions in the field of innovation development [2, p.430].

         An important factor in the growth of the national economy is the development of small business on an innovative basis. The implementation of active tax effects in the direction of stimulating the innovation activity of small businesses can be a significant factor in their development.

         According to Vygovska V.V., the first direction of the tax effect on the innovative activity of small enterprises is related to the need to regulate the volume and structure of innovation costs of the latter, which is due to the need to transform the innovative cost of the results. The second direction is to stimulate the intensity of cooperative ties between innovative active subjects of entrepreneurship, which creates the preconditions for effective cooperation between business and science. The third direction involves tax incentives for diversification of sources of funding for innovation activities of small enterprises [1, p. 102].

          So, summing up, it should be emphasized that effective development of innovative entrepreneurship is impossible without adequate financial and legal support from the state, which necessitates significant transformations and the development of effective methods of state incentives. Ensuring innovation activity of Ukrainian enterprises should be carried out in the complex of the national innovation system, creation of high-tech industries and industrial development of research results. Formation of the regulatory framework for the unblocking of mortgage lending, the implementation of sound reforms, the creation of a favorable economic environment with an investment-innovative climate should facilitate the development of entrepreneurship on an innovative basis and ensure the growth of the national economy.

                                                            References

1. Vygovska V. V. Directions of tax incentives for innovative development of small business / V.V. Vygovska, O. Azurova // Scientific herald of Chernihiv State Institute of Economics and Management. Series 1: Economics. - 2013. - Issue 4. - P. 99-103.

2. Chichkalo-Kondratska I. B. Foreign experience of using mechanisms for stimulating innovation development / I. B. Chichkalo-Kondratska // Collection of scientific works of the National University of the State Tax Service of Ukraine. - 2012. - No. 1. - p. 420-432.

3. Official site of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. - Mode of access: http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua.