RESEARCH OF THE LEVEL OF THE INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MACHINE BUILDING ENTERPRISES OF UKRAINE IN KHARKOV REGION Abstract: In today's world of the science and new technologies development all the countries including Ukraine are entrusted with a task of refocusing on the innovative way of evolution. The level of innovativeness of the country depends on the development of enterprises in this regard since exactly the industrial enterprises are able to induce the innovative process and be a multiplier of other economic sectors. Thus it is expedient to re-equip the industry of the state and encourage exactly the high-tech branches thereof. In this regard the goal of this paper is to explore and assess the influence of the criteria of innovative activity of the industrial enterprises on the level of the innovative development thereof. To reach the mentioned goal the criteria of innovative activity of the leading machine building enterprises of Ukraine in Kharkov region are chosen as the object of research. The studied enterprises are innovatively active in Kharkov region according to the criteria of the work thereof. The following criteria of innovative activity of the enterprises are chosen for analysis: the volume of the sold innovative products; the charges for innovation; the research intensity of the innovative products; the share of the studied enterprises in the total volume of the products sold in this region; the quantity of the new technological processes; the quantity of the new innovative kinds of products. The chosen criteria are important for enterprise in relation to the innovative activity and in case of changes have a substantial influence on its development and stability. Methodology. To research the level of innovative development of the machine building enterprises of Ukraine in Kharkov region the author prop: 1) Formation of the matrix of the basic data; 2) Standardization of the basic data; 3) Differentiation of the characteristics on inciters and disincentives; 4) Construction of the etalon; 5) Determination of the distance between the objects and etalon; 6) Calculation of the criteria of the level of development; 7) Preparation of the rating of the enterprises depending on the level of innovative development. Results. According to the results of the conducted taxonomic analysis of the certain machine building enterprises of Kharkov region (Ukraine) the criteria of the level of development of the studied enterprises ranges from 0,524 to 0,878. The obtained result evidences that although the enterprises declare the orientation on the innovative development, actually not all of the studied enterprises are innovatively active at all the criteria. However the rate of the taxonomic criteria of the most of them is inclined to one, that confirms the orientation thereof on the innovative way of development. Value/originality. The data obtained in result of the calculation and analysis encourages the better understanding of the synergies between the criteria of the innovative activity of the enterprises and the level of the innovative development thereof. This allows the enterprises to correct their innovative activity depending on the current situation and take the effective management decisions directed on the way of innovative development in future

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