В статьи представлен анализ инновационной активности предприятий Иркутской области. Приведены основные показатели инновационной деятельности за 2012 год, а также сделан анализ за 2010-2012 гг.
Ключевые слова: инновационная экономика, экономика Иркутской области
Although the high level of innovation activity is considered to be highly important for companies’ competitiveness in the innovative economic conditions, Russian enterprises are reluctant to innovate on a regular basis so far. Many innovation activity indicators in Russia lag behind the similar indicators of the developed and some developing countries. The proportion of innovation active firms in Russia is only 9.5%, whereas in Germany the same indicator equals to 79.9%. Moreover, in Russia innovation activity levels vary significantly depending on the region. The purpose of this article is to analyze innovation activities of the Irkutsk region enterprises. Official statistics is used for the analysis.