A three-level scale for assessing indicators system as a tool for evaluating the effectiveness of innovative activities of engineering enterprises

The author’s three-level scale for evaluating the effectiveness of innovative activities of engineering enterprises has been presented. The purpose of the study is to develop a scale that can facilitate the procedure for determining the level of effectiveness of innovation activities of enterprises in the engineering industry, considering the many factors being evaluated and the specifics of the expert assessment procedure. The following research methods have been used: analysis, synthesis, deduction, comparison, analogy, and description. The proposed structure, which includes three levels of scales, helps to accurately determine the sources of the current level of innovation efficiency within the framework of the integral indicator. The final seven-level scale for evaluating the integral indicator differs from the methods available in the scientific community for evaluating effectiveness as it provides for a level of lack of effectiveness of innovation activities, which indicates the need to take urgent measures to change the innovation direction and suspend ongoing development and innovative products commercialization. In addition, the developed scale for evaluating the effectiveness of innovation activities has a wide range of scores, which avoids the influence of quantitative errors in determining a particular level of effectiveness. The scale structure allows for separate evaluation of the effectiveness of each group of indicators, which provides flexibility in approaches to modernizing the innovation activities of engineering enterprises aimed at improving the state of factors with low efficiency values.

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