Formation of the Innovative Validity of Industrial Enterprises

The article is devoted to the development of innovative activity of industrial enterprises in the conditions of new industrialization, which determine the survival of a science-intensive business through the activation of the development and implementation of high-quality R&D, capable of creating high-demand science-intensive products both at the national and global levels. In the article, the authors expand the traditional approach to understanding innovation by introducing a new concept into scientific circulation - «innovative validity». On the basis of a comparative criteria analysis of such basic definitions of innovation management as innovation potential, innovation activity, innovation susceptibility, the place of innovation consistency in the practice of industrial enterprises is clarified, while it is justified that it is an evolutionary stage in the development of innovation activity in the chain innovation potential - innovation activity – innovative susceptibility – innovative viability. The article highlights the distinctive features of the innovative viability of a science-intensive business and offers a number of recommendations aimed at its institutionalization. Keywords: Innovation; Business; Innovative opportunity; Innovative potential; Innovative activity; Sensitivity to innovation; Industrial enterprise.