Methodical and analytical basis for economic activity efficiency assessment in high-tech industry

The subject of the study is theoretical, methodological and practical issues of assessing the efficiency of high-tech industry’s economic activity in the management of investment and innovation development. The aim of the work is to improve the scientific and methodological provisions of the performance analysis of investment and innovation development processes in high-tech industry. Further development of a methodology for assessing high-tech industry economic activity efficiency, using Russian machinetool industry indicators for testing, is the main task. The methodology of work includes analysis methods of financial and economic activity, linear regression method, factor analysis, which are used to form a general image of economic functioning of the high-tech sector in domestic industry. The author’s methodology possesses scientific novelty. It differs from the known approaches by the criteria of positive profitability of the production of items with significant added value, growth of the profitability index of industrial high-tech products, an increase in the consumption index of high-tech products of the industry on the domestic market, which indicates a formed regional resource-innovation environment. The results of the research provide an increase in the productivity of investment activity and the implementation of intra-industry innovation policy in the high-tech industry sector, which is approved by approbation on the economic indicators of machine-tool and tool industry of the Russian Federation.