Assessing the impact of innovations in the food industry on labour productivity

Abstract

The research aims to assess the degree of dependence between innovation and productivity of medium-sized enterprises to further improve Kazakhstan’s innovation policy and identify ways to implement it. In the process, methods of analysis were used with the help of an open-source statistical program “gretl”, and data comparison from the position of positive innovation effect concerning the segment of medium-sized enterprises. The results demonstrate that innovation (production and process) is positively influenced by the internal costs of research and development, as well as the availability of patents and the size of the enterprise itself.