Directions for the development of the innovative potential of industrial enterprises

The article provides a comparative assessment of various scientists and economists studying theoretical approaches to sustainable strategic development of innovative potential of industrial enterprises. The conducted research identifies the main directions of the theoretical approaches to its study, both by Russian scientists and foreign ones. In this regard, it is necessary to pay more attention to the processes aimed at ensuring stable economic growth and, perhaps, even be unable to influence them. In the context of transforming global economic relations, the stability of economic systems is a key element of the development and strategic growth of the innovative potential of industrial enterprises. It is needed to introduce and use various theoretical approaches in the process of forming directions for the strategic development of this potential contributing to the effective establishment of the industrial complex. Methodological approaches of scientific research to the conceptual and essential characteristics and categorisation of the innovative potential of industrial enterprises as part of the economic system are also considered and systematised. The obtained results of the conducted research can be used in assessing the theoretical foundations aimed at studying the theoretical directions of industrial and spatial development of the country’s economic sectors and at the strategic development of the innovative potential of industrial enterprises.