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The article is devoted to small entrepreneurship in the scientific and technical sphere, despite the recognition of its right to state support, it has a significant difference from scientific and technical and the so-called earlier implementation activities characteristic of the period preceding economic reforms. A significant place in the article is given to the development of mathematical modeling in the system of innovative entrepreneurship in modern crisis conditions. Adaptability and flexibility are considered as the most important indicators of the efficiency of structures, their ability to ensure sustainable operation and effective innovative development of small businesses. The issues of scientific, technical and innovative activities in small business and in the public sector of the economy on the conjugation of adaptability and flexibility are considered. A number of modern techniques related to the development of mathematical modeling of the development of small enterprises in innovative activities in a crisis are analyzed. The necessity of mathematical modeling as the main factor in the implementation of financial support for small business in innovation, for which conventional methods are unacceptable, has been substantiated. The proposed approach should be considered as a guideline when assessing the mechanism for allocating funds from the budget for the development of small business in innovation.

The article deals with the problems of increasing the commercial activity of machine-building companies in post-crisis conditions, the solution of which should contribute to a fairly rapid return to previously developed plans for their expansion. The relevance and novelty of the problem lies in an integrated approach to the category of commercial activity of companies, which involves investigating various areas of their activities and generalizations from the theoretical and practical point of view. The objective of the study is to identify possible ways to increase the commercial activity of companies to enter the development stage. The methodological basis of the study is based on work in the field of economics, management and finance of companies and the possibility of its use in modern conditions. The main directions of research into the commercial activity of companies are analyzed: ensuring planned growth and improving the material and technical base of production; balance and steady increase in financial results; increase in the efficiency of the use of all types of resources of the company and its work in general; effective policy of deepening specialization and diversifying production; and growth of innovative potential in all areas of activity.

This article examines the theory and practice of a multi-level system of continuous innovative education. The pedagogical system of multilevel continuous creative education is considered in detail, and sufficient creative pedagogical methods are put forward for the formation of creative thinking and the development of students' creative abilities. Creative approach provides teachers and students with intellectual tools for the formation of creative systems thinking, teaches them to look at the world systematically and manage thought processes. Innovative teaching methods in the continuous formation of a multilevel system of creative thinking provide the basic principles of teaching by changing the structure of the lessons and implementing their original content. Using them, it is possible to significantly accelerate the solution of a pressing problem in Russia: formation of a creative personality of students.

The article is dedicated to problems that include improving the quality of machine-building enterprises workforce management in post-crisis terms. There are the main specialties of crisis conditions in economy, which have to be taken into consideration while developing policy in enterprise's staff sphere. Actuality and novelty of the problem are in extension of the existing crisis, while studying its consequences we just need to analyze and summarize them by encompassing both theory and practice. The goal of research is finding out possible ways of recovering enterprises' activity, while going out of the crisis on the basis of all resources mobilization and especially labor ones. The methodological basis of research is fundamental works in enterprises' staff management and possibility of usage in modern conditions. The indicators, which define the improving of machine-building enterprises workforce management for defining the weakest places in making perspective routes of work with staff in post-crisis conditions, are considered in detail. Such routes as changing average headcount of industry production staff within the enterprise (IPS) and workers, recovering and improving staff structure, usage of work time, estimation of staff movement, estimation of staff quality, question of labor increasing growth, as an important economical criterion of their usage for enterprises' recovering to the before-crisis development level are studied.

The article shows marketing and innovation as the central elements of business that contribute to the creation and maintenance of a customer base. The theory and practice of the role of innovation in the modern scientific and technological revolution is considered. The forms of sales promotion by marketing services and sales departments by consulting companies are investigated. It is necessary that in conditions of high competition, the area of the marketing complex should be the focus of attention of the top management of the company.

This article proposes an approach to improving methods of managing competitiveness in market conditions. Currently, in connection with the processes of modernization in the economy and changes in market conditions, there is a need to improve the approaches and methods of production management. Russian enterprises are faced with the emerging conditions of competition. The relevance of the article is due to the fact that today the issues of managing the competitiveness of an enterprise have not been sufficiently considered and requires an improved approach to the formation of new mechanisms for managing the competitiveness of enterprises, contributing to its increase and the acquisition of a stable position by the enterprise in the market, based on the development of new scientific methods and principles. The novelty of the article is in the concepts of developing an approach to managing the competitiveness of industrial enterprises, contributing to an increase in their level on the basis of a proposal for a management model based on diagnostics and forecasting of the state of the enterprise and its ability to compete.