INNOVATIVE SPHERE CONTROL AND PLANNING IMPROVEMENT
The article considers the two basic types of planning and also the model of organization, preparation and realization of competitive innovative project. The authors show the stages of the process of innovative project planning and control and the methods of determining innovations using basic parameters in modern Russian conditions. They specify the process of realization and improvement of innovative activity planning using the example of Niznyi Novgorod region, the centre of the Volga federal district.