INNOVATION AND INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT OF AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

The problems, possibilities and perspectives of activization of innovation and investment processes in agro-industrial complex are considered in the article. It is proved that for the intensification of agro-industrial complex the increase of its investment attraction is necessary. At the evaluation of the investment projects, the most substantial types of risks are determined. The development level of agro-industrial complex of the country that largely depends on the state of its innovative providing is researched. The amount of the inculcated new technological processes in the agro-industrial production of Ukraine over the last few years is appraised. The analysis of the development of innovative entrepreneurship and scientific and technical activity in the country is conducted and it is characterized by the following factors: firstly, by the lack of own funds for the activization of innovative activity, which is confirmed by the structure of the sources of financing of innovative activity; secondly, by the overwhelming propensity to innovative activity of large enterprises; thirdly, by the minimization of the influence of the state through budget policy on the rates and directions of the development of innovative entrepreneurship that is predefined by proof practice of slow budgetary maintenance of state scientific institutions and due to the deepening of tendencies of concentration of budgetary resources on financing of fundamental scientific research at the minimum amounts of financing of the government special-purposed programs. Several measures for the intensification of innovation and investment activity of enterprises are proposed.