Evaluation of innovative systems development instruments

Abstract

Introduction. The article presents the author's tools for evaluating tools (or projects) of innovative regional development, which expands traditional ideas about the analysis of the effectiveness of projects. The relevance of developing approaches to assessing innovative development tools is determined primarily by the need to improve methods for forming a package of priority state and regional programs that will have a positive impact on the development of innovative systems. It is worth noting that most of the assessment systems used, as a rule, provide only a financial and economic assessment of the effectiveness of the project (or tool), which may contradict the systematic analysis of the object and indicate the one-sided nature of the study. In addition, the concept of sustainable development assumes a balanced solution to socio-economic problems that should take into account the dynamic development of the economy and the social sphere while preserving the potential of the country's natural complex. This leads to the conclusion that it is necessary to expand the tools used to assess the effectiveness of implemented programs (projects, tools, etc.), which makes the problem of evaluating innovative development tools relevant at the present time. The purpose of the study is to develop a toolkit that allows evaluating innovative development tools in terms of both financial and social consequences. To describe the theoretical foundations of the research, elements of deduction and induction methods, analysis and synthesis, and the classification method were used. Methods of analogy and abstraction were used to test the proposed tools. The "traffic light" method and the use of expert analysis will be used to classify and rank projects. The results of the conducted research have generally shown that the inclusion of the "equity" indicator in the system of assessment of innovative development tools makes it possible to consider it (the tool) from all sides, including in the context of environmental impact, which is consistent with the concept of sustainable development. Conclusions. In accordance with the results obtained from the approbation of the proposed methodo-logy for evaluating innovative development tools, the authors draw conclusions on the application of the assessment methodology in practice, some of its limitations, and outline areas of future research within this approach.