Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 13 (Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities): 167-172, 2013
ISSN 1990-9233
© IDOSI Publications, 2013
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2013.13.sesh.1430
Corresponding Author: Kuznetsov, ISMA-University of Applied Sciences,
Lomonosov Str., build. 6, Riga, Latvia, LV-1019.
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Specific Features of Management System Building
for Modern Innovative Companies
Nikolay Kuznetsov
ISMA-University of Applied Sciences, Riga, Latvia
Abstract: The article describes the trends of innovative enterprises development at current stage and
peculiarities and specificity of their operation. Functioning of innovative enterprises requires the simultaneous
combination of operational and project management (to manage current business and perspective developments
respectively). Specificity of modern organization operation imposes new requirements for the organizational
aspects of management, competency of innovation managers and dictates the need of transformational
leadership. The noticeable trend of the last two years has been the creation of Research & Development (R&D)
divisions within the companies with a simultaneous increase in the status of managers responsible for the
innovation management. One of the challenges facing companies’ R&D is to evaluate the performance. Among
the difficulties in evaluating R&D units there are significant duration of individual projects, a large spread of
results between different projects and a significant number of failures. The main features of the modern
innovative companies is the transition from the traditional "closed" model of R&D implementation to a new
model of "open innovation”; the dynamism of development under uncertainty of environment leads to high
risks of innovation. Specificity of innovative enterprise dictates the need for an effective risk management
framework that will ensure the relevance of the project management of the corporate strategy risks and
performance criteria on the basis of BSC.
Key words: Innovative enterprises development R&D implementation Management framework.
INTRODUCTION European business school INSEAD, in 2012, Russia
Various research works indicate that the economic being inferior to such countries as Estonia (19th), Latvia
development of any country and its national (30th), Lithuania (38th), Poland (44th), Saudi Arabia (48th)
competitiveness largely depend on enterprise innovation and Moldova (50th).
activities [1]. Modern companies are fighting for the lead One of the reasons of the low innovation activity of
in innovation, creating new technologies, based on their many Russian companies is disadvantages of the formed
own research projects, using external sources and mainly system of research and development management,
using the approach based on personalization in including the following ones:
knowledge management. The companies try to consider
different ways of development of the product and the Management of innovation processes is carried out
market, depending on the capabilities provided by the without taking into account changes in the external
external environment and the company's ability to identify market environment and customer requirements,
and take advantage of it [2]. Prediction of the trends in industrial technology is
Despite the fact that in recent years the government not realized, benchmark methods in the field of
is taking active measures to stimulate innovation, innovation and technology commercialization are not
scientific and technological gap between Russia and the applied;
world leaders remains and the amount of high technology Development of the forecast for the industrial
products remains at the level of the middle echelon of the technology development and innovation
developing countries. According to the report of the benchmarking are virtually non-existent;
ranked only the 51th place in the innovation rating [3]