Authors

V.M. ZOTOV

Abstract

Innovative processes designed to provide competitive advantages to an economic entity are a kind of symbiosis of creativity and engineering. Creativity dominates in some companies, and then it can be difficult for management to fit it into an acceptable spatial and temporal framework, in others it is the engineering approach that prevails, and then creative participants in the innovation process suffer from the dictates of forms, methods and timing. A reasonable compromise is needed that allows management to plan the activities of participants in the innovation process in such a way as not to suppress their creative enthusiasm and at the same time guarantee the implementation of the innovation project on time for an affordable price. Guided by this principle, this article proposes one of the possible options for the mathematical formulation of the task of scheduling the innovation process. The duration of each of its technological operations may vary within certain limits depending on the availability of available labor resources and the professional competencies of its direct executors. Ultimately, this allows you to generate flexible calendar plans for the implementation of innovative projects in the company with the most intensive use of the labor resources that it has.

Keywords

innovative development, innovative project, labor resource, technological operation, technological network, optimization model, schedule, dynamic programming.