Peculiarities of Quality Management Methodology for Innovation Projects of Industrial Enterprises

In the scientific field, characterized in general as "research of innovative problems", a clarification of terminology and basic concepts pertaining to the studied problems is of great importance (perhaps more important than in other issues of the science of economic management). The article presents the author's definition of a number of key concepts of this scientific field, besides the peculiarities of the methodology of quality management which are applied specifically to the innovative activity of industrial enterprises are formulated. The issues discussed in the article, in spite of the rich scientific background, are particularly relevant and still controversial. The authors justify the meaning of a "new / innovative product" not only as a "proper" product, but also as a process, a technology that, in turn, can be used both for the production of new products only and for the production of traditional "old products" with use of new methods / technologies, providing more economic use of resources. The article presents a schematic diagram of an innovative mechanism that reflects the typology of managing the innovation process of an industrial enterprise as a single process of production and consumption of innovative products. Within the innovation system of the enterprise, quality management issues are considered separately, namely, its economic component as an innovation process. The article also shows how innovation processes are managed within the framework of the innovation system based on the example of quality management