Training Manual . — Tambov: Tambov State Technical University, 2006. — 116 s. The book is not complete! There is no continuation of hl. 8 and hl. 9!Authors: Professor B. In. Bykovsky (section 1); Associate Professor L. In. Minko (Section 2); Associate Professor O. In. Korobova (Section 3, Topics 6, 7); Associate Professor E. In. Bykovskaya (Section 3, Topic 8); G. M. Goldsmith (Section 3, Topic 9). The theoretical foundations of innovation activity at the macro- and micro level. Contains the conceptual apparatus, classification and functions of innovation, reveals the mechanism of the innovation process in enterprises, the choice of organizational forms of innovation, the organization of marketing and financing of innovation. It examines foreign experience in the development of innovative systems, regional aspects of the innovation sphere, in particular, in the Tambov region. Designed for students of economic specialties, graduate students and teachers of economic universities .