Kologryvov Y. Innovative development of energy engineering enterprises

The thesis solves the relevant scientific and applied tasks on the development of theoretical and methodological provisions, as well as practical recommendations for the foresight and implementation of innovative development methods in enterprises of the energy engineering industry. These methods are developed based on the principle of the cyclicity of economic processes. This paper researches the categorization and terminology apparatus of the theory of innovative development of enterprises. Such innovative development is analyzed in the scenario of drawing the innovations of a “driver”-enterprise into the comercialization process. The process implements breakthrough (“cutting-edge”) technologies using methods of technological auditing while taking into account the on-going phase of the cyclical process. The foundational features for innovative operational support of energy engineering enterprises are analyzed through the prism of creating basic innovations on various phases of the cyclical process and the process of commercialization. The research reveals the features of innovative enterprise development based on cyclicity and foresight, with the application of the Atkinson method for the implementation of the scenario approach, as well as the matrix of scenario spaces for two driving forces: cost per use and industry growth rate. The paper also reviews the possible settings of enterprise development taking into account the current state of the enterprise with the possibility of transitioning to a mid-term and long-term perspective. The scientific work develops a toolkit for the assessment of innovative enterprise development based on technological foresight. It also addresses the industry-specific structural components of innovative development in the field of energy engineering. This is done in the scenario where energy engineering enterprises perform a system-establishing role and ensure the functioning of infrastructure throughout a considerably large region. During the course of conducting studies for the thesis, the researcher discovered the patterns of innovative development in the sphere of high-technology entrepreneurship in the “science-to-production” system based on the principle of cyclicity with the interaction of education, knowledge generation and production. Consequently, the research included an assessment of the effectiveness of implementing cutting-edge technologies by innovation-oriented "drivers" (scientific parks) for use within energy engineering enterprises. As a result, a set of measures was designed in the area of cyclically-oriented foresight for innovative development of energy engineering enterprises. This was done with the application of the SWOT analysis score method to assess the minimum and maximum results of development strategy implementation. A scientific approach was proposed for the implementation of methodological provisions and foresight tools of energy engineering enterprises to identify the directions of science and technology that will constitute the basis of the sixth technological structure, as well as the basis for creating possible development scenarios on the enterprise level. The thesis analyzes the effectiveness of implementing innovative enterprise development strategies. Such strategies are reviewed in the context of the cyclical nature of economic processes and the sequence of science and technology development. The aforementioned technological development itself is centered on basic innovations created using scientific knowledge, as well as on the amount of funds received for the transfer of production licenses for a specific product. The licenses are transferred from the relevant scientist, inventor, patent or license holder to a manufacturer. The research of industry-specific structural components of innovative development in the energy engineering field has uncovered concrete patterns of high-technology entrepreneurship in the “science-to-production” system. This scientific paper has also conducted an assessment of the effectiveness of breakthrough technology implementation in energy engineering companies done by innovation-oriented “drivers” (scientific parks). The proposed methodological toolkit for the innovative development of energy engineering enterprises provides an approach for implementing theoretical methods that is both practical and grounded in scientific research. The end result of this thesis is a complex system of measures that enables foresight in the field of innovative development of energy enterprises. Such foresight is called upon to increase the effectiveness of implementing development strategies that reshape both specific companies and the entire industry on a technological, administrative and commercial level under the conditions of economic cyclicity.