Competitiveness of Research and Development and project offices as a corporate innovative systems: Ground of new private category of competitiveness for the conditions of new technological structure establishing

Abstract

The work continues the analysis of the role of R&D departments and project offices in forming of corporate innovative systems and through CIS connections of various technostructures into the new type of clusters. They will connect cluster members not within the framework of commercial communication networks, but within the framework of information cooperation. In the continuation of this analysis, it is shown that the categories of "competitiveness" and "innovative activity", between which the dependence was to be established as a solution of one of the research objectives, are not unambiguous: competitiveness is presented as a causal ability to gain market power and as a consequence of the success of economic objects resulting from this ability, the concept of innovative activity also includes a causal innovation-oriented activity and the result of this activity in the form of acquired innovativeness. Moreover, the values of competitiveness-cause and innovative activity as a consequence are much closer than the values in each pair of interpretations separately. This situation made it possible to select indicators which most closely reflect the essence of the characteristics. The dependence between them should be established, and this situation made it also possible to compile a statistical model with three parts: innovative activity, innovativeness, competitiveness - like success in competition. The revealed dependences received interpretations. They make it possible to draw conclusions about the need to use separate objects for assessing competitiveness of the corporate innovative systems, and to put forward hypotheses about the nature of the impact of competitiveness of CIS on the reasons for the previously identified greater role of project offices in CIS forming in comparison with R&D departments.