IDENTIFICATION OF SMALL INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISES
Small businesses engaged in innovation constitute one of major sectors of the national innovation system, with the constantly growing economic role and importance. Managing the development of this sector requires an effective system of monitoring their activities, including institutional mechanisms of registration and account, and a classification of organisations. It is important to develop objective indicators to identify the innovation-oriented cluster of small structures of many different organisations that make up the domestic small business. The article presents mechanisms for accounting, performance measurement and monitoring of small high-tech businesses, worked out by the authors and adequate to the specificity and scale of their development in the national practice. The paper provides an overview of international practices of monitoring the activities of small businesses in innovation. It identifies the principles of indicators of their development, the methodology of formation, and the structure of the indicators system. The authors offer an original classification of small businesses, basing on international experience and domestic practice of the organisation of statistical observation of their activities. They have formulated proposals for the organisation of monitoring and carrying out special questionnaire surveys of small high-tech businesses.