INNOVATIVE COMPETENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS AS A PRIORITY COMPONENT OF FUTURE PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

Abstract

In the study, the authors revealed the importance of developing innovative competence in higher education students as an important component of future professional management activities. They examined the definition of innovative competence in various literary sources and identified the main scientific approaches to determining the content and structure of this phenomenon. Innovative competence is considered a key professional competence of a modern specialist, and it is noted that its absence significantly reduces the effectiveness of professional activity, especially in conditions of turbulence and constant modernisation of social and technological processes. Innovative competence reflects an individual's readiness and ability to adapt, generate and implement changes, which is a prerequisite for successful and sustainable functionality in a dynamic professional environment. The relevance of the study is confirmed by rapid technological progress and the need to overcome the identified gap between the high theoretical knowledge of students and their insufficient psychological readiness for innovative risk and practical entrepreneurial implementation of ideas, which was established through empirical surveys. To achieve the research objective, systematic and comprehensive analyses of scientific and pedagogical literature on the essence and structure of innovative competence were used. Summarising the results of the analysis, the authors concluded that the teaching staff actively uses modern pedagogical technologies, and the knowledge control system motivates students to be creative and original, rather than just reproducing information.