High-Tech Medium-Sized Companies as Carriers of Innovation in the Domestic Economy

The subject of the research is the activities of high — tech medium-sized companies. The purpose of the work is to assess their contribution to the innovative development of the domestic economy. As a result of the study, it was found that a noticeable trend over the past 10–15 years has been the formation of an ever-increasing segment consisting of domestic high-tech medium-sized enterprises, whose work is “focused” on the continuous generation of innovations. Collective and individual “portraits” of high-tech companies have been formed, demonstrating a high level of labor productivity, actively expanding into foreign markets, becoming centers of innovation origin and dissemination, increasingly occupying competitive positions in high-tech market niches and having prospects for industry or global leadership. The examples of successful activities of a number of companies show that openness to the constant application of innovations makes it possible to form stable positions in the market and maintain a high level of business competitiveness. It was noted that the process of training future specialists occupies an important place in their activities. The vertical of “nurturing” personnel is being rebuilt, based on work with schoolchildren and university students. It is concluded that in the near future, the community of high-tech companies will develop the country’s innovation potential.