The role of foreign investments in the Ukrainian enterprises innovative development financing

The market economy opens wide opportunities for intensification of innovation, so therefore its characteristic feature is the acquisition, use of new knowledge and transformation of knowledge and technologies into a full-fledged factor of production. One of the characteristic features of the market economy and the national economy in general is the ability to attract foreign direct investment, which determines the rapid pace of the country's economic development. Foreign investments, in turn, are indispensable for Ukrainian enterprises in today's realities. Foreign direct investment indicates the long-term interest of foreign investors in the functioning of enterprises, it also stimulates development of enterprises through access to foreign capital. It is a way of development stimulation of enterprises through access to foreign capital. Thus, FDI is a way of combating the problem of low domestic savings. The dynamic development of market relations in Ukraine in the context of the transitive type market transformation requires new approaches to economic management both at the macro level and at the level of individual enterprises. The problems of creating such mechanisms for managing the activities of enterprises, which, in addition to ensuring a sufficient level of solvency, liquidity and profitability, would contribute to the direct growth of the general level of scientific and technical knowledge and, as a result, its use in order to boost business efficiency. In general, innovation is a novelty in the field of engineering, technology, labor organization or management, based on the use of scientific advances and best practices. Innovation is the result of innovative activity, as an activity aimed at transforming research and development or a new approach to the process of providing services. As a result of research the basic problems of financing of innovative activity of the enterprises are studied. Emphasis is placed on the fact that innovation activity involves attracting investment resources of foreign business entities to the process of development and implementation of innovations.