Diagnostics of intellectual potential of development of foreign economic activity of enterprises of the Kharkiv region for ensuring their competitiveness

The article studies the essence of the "intellectual potential" notion and establishes that one should understand intellectual potential as potential (not actualised at present) knowledge, information, experience of personnel, organisational abilities and information channels, which are used by an enterprise in its production and innovation activity for ensuring economic security and competitiveness. It shows that conditionally the intellectual potential of enterprise development could be divided into two main components: human potential and organisational potential. In order to ensure competitiveness of foreign economic activity (FEA) of enterprises, the article offers to diagnose the state of their intellectual potential of development. Moreover, the article offers to consider this procedure of diagnostics as a process of controlling the correspondence of the vector of development of intellectual potential of an enterprise in general and its components. The article develops conceptual provisions of diagnostics of the state of intellectual potential of enterprise development and conducts a diagnostics of the state of intellectual potential of enterprise development at enterprises of the real sector of economy, namely, at the engineering enterprises of the Kharkiv region, which are engaged in foreign economic activity. The article calculates an integral indicator of the state of intellectual potential of development of FEA of enterprises of the Kharkiv region.