The object of study: innovative work of experts in the industry as a complex socio-economic phenomenon; Objective: To deepen the theoretical concepts and further development of systematic approaches to promotion of innovative work professionals in the industry; methods and techniques: theoretical synthesis method, system analysis, scientific classification, statistical analysis, the method of peer review, taxonomy, of the theory of fuzzy sets, regression analysis, surveys, formalization method of structural-functional business process modeling, graphical method; theoretical and practical results, methodical approach to the evaluation and promotion of innovation specialists work in the industry, which feature innovative activity is to assess each specialist as the development of innovative projects; methodical approach to the choice of methods for promotion of innovative labor experts in industry, distributed by directions in support of employment or value orientations; feature of the proposed approach is to use a matrix that contains directions and promotion of innovative methods of work; theoretical principles to enhance the innovative work that lies in clarifying the definition of "activation innovative work" as a process of changing labor behavior specialist inert to active at the macro, meso and micro levels to achieve innovative results of work in the form of innovative proposals, decisions, ideas, projects and products; hierarchical classification of personality traits specialists innovative work, which feature a selection is theoretically sound and practically significant proposed classification criteria 'ability to change as a result of influence "groups Fig primary and secondary socialization; complex interaction of institutions for promotion of innovative work professionals in the industry at the macro, meso and micro levels, the difference of which is generalization and refinement: towards more active macro-level information relationships between departments of regional management at the meso level, organizational support for promotion of innovative work experts on the formation of a separate department or administration office specialist at the micro level; procedure for assessment of innovation entities engineering industry, which is to determine the difference generalizing integral index of innovation performance, which is calculated by comparing the integral indicators of innovation activity and efficiency of innovation expenditures; degree uprovazhdennya: design implemented in practice the State Enterprise plant "Electrotyazhmash", LLC "Age" Hitlayn "Department of Innovation Industry and transport infrastructure Kharkiv Regional State Administration, the learning process Kharkiv National University of Economics; Scope: boosting innovation work