Kiriakova M. The Development of Innovation Activity Models in Multinationals

The thesis is devoted to the research of innovation activity models in multinationals in the era of technoglobalism establishment. The main imperatives of international innovation activity are substantiated in the thesis. The core of innovation modeling and evolution of innovation activity models in multinationals are revealed in the thesis. The changes in the group of countries-technological leaders are shown. The cross-cultural peculiarities of business models of innovation activity in multinationals of various countries are discovered. The integrated system of innovation management based on the experience of top-innovators is proposed in the thesis. It includes the following links with appropriate tools: forecasting and ideas search, R&D planning and financing, organizational forms and structures in the innovation sphere, control and monitoring of innovation products adoption, commercialization of the results of corporate research work. The peculiarities of the innovation activity financing in the key stages of scientific and technical process are shown in the thesis. The ways of enhancement of innovation activity efficiency in Ukraine on the base of modern national innovation system formation are shown. Based on the empirical investigation conducted after the McKinsey methodology the level of innovation potential of Ukrainian companies of high-technology sectors is discovered and the methods of its increase are proposed.