Abstract
The article examines the impact of innovation (productive, process, organizational, marketing) on labor productivity in the food industry of Kazakhstan. In Kazakhstan, at small and medium-sized enterprises, special attention isn’t paid to the problems of interconnection between innovation and enterprise productivity and to consideration of their influence.
The set of data the authors used for the analysis was obtained from the official website of the Agency for Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS V) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. as well as the results of the survey among medium-sized enterprises of Kazakhstan from 2016 to 2018.
The paper uses modern analytical methods of research, including econometric and statistical methods, comparison methods and comparison of the obtained results. The article discusses the results of econometric analysis, modeling and evaluation results concerned with the positive effect of innovation, investment, and research and development (R&D) on the labor productivity of medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the food industry in Kazakhstan; econometric analysis has been performed.
On the basis of the econometric model using Gretl program identified innovations (productive and process) are positively influenced by internal R&D costs, patents and firm size. And also identified innovations (organizational and marketing), which have a positive (weakly) influence the size of the firm.
To increase the productivity of the company, one first needs to determine the role of innovation strategy, then consider ways of introducing it into the enterprise. Based on this, it is proposed to improve the innovation policy in Kazakhstan, get acquainted with the practice of implementing innovation in foreign countries and its realization.
01 Introduction
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02 References
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