INNOVATORS: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE FUTURE PROFESSION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENTS

Development and implementation of innovations in different fields of human life have become a driving force for the economic development of any country in the modern world. Russian higher educational institutions are enrolling students in the "Innovatics" course to train future innovators. This raises a logical question - who is an innovator, and what is he/she dealing with? The purpose of the survey discussed in the article was to identify students. opinions - the future innovators - on the advantages and disadvantages of their future professional activity. Key methods of the research were general scientific cognition methods, such as theoretical analysis of different positions on such areas of knowledge as Innovatics and the profession of innovator, as well as empirical methods, such as observation, interviews and questionnaires. The surveys of students obtained data on not only the advantages and disadvantages, which, according to future innovators, are associated with their professional activities but also on what would be interesting for them to learn in the course of their professional activity. Key competencies to be formed in the process of Innovatics training were listed to make the innovators-graduates demanded in the labor market.