This article describes the recommendations for the promotion of small business in the international trade of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Vietnam. Actual direction is the development of Internet resources by small businesses to exchange information. It is proposed to organize study tours for businessmen of the two countries and to support student startups.

Problems related to programming management of socio-economic processes, which take place in the municipality, are connected with the poor usage of strategic approach. Understanding of municipal programs as a part of the strategic management system, must be based on scientific approach to development and implementation of programming solutions on municipal level.

In the first part of the paper: an overview of publications in the field of enterprise knowledge management is given; definitions of signals, data, information and knowledge are provided; various classifications of knowledge are considered, and the structure of the intellectual capital is discussed. Three basic components of intellectual capital are presented: human capital, internal and external organizational capital.

This article is devoted to the study of variability of electricity consumption. Cyclical fluctuations and the impact of random factors are typical for electricity consumption. Availability of information about the basic laws and methods of modeling allows the planning and selection of optimal operating modes of power generating equipment.

The article describes procedure of building a scorecard R & D of industrial enterprises with such tools of controlling as BSC and KPI with regard to the requirements of stakeholders and levels of management of the industrial enterprise.

The purpose of the paper is to illuminate the costs and benefits of crossing firm boundaries in inbound open innovation (OI) at creation of corporate innovative systems, determining thus the relations among types of partners and possibility of an exchange by knowledge between them. The empirical part of research is based on the analysis of poll of heads of holding structures and R&D - managers concerning cooperation of external and internal partners of holding. Results show that depth of cooperation with various partners (universities, consultants, partners in a chain of creation of value, competitors and the firms working in other industries) it is positively connected with innovative activity whereas the number of various partners has negative effects. The main result consists that transfer of knowledge at cooperation softens negative impact of existence of too many different types of partners. The analysis of data confirmed that from what share of the companies attracting internal and external interested parties in processes of innovative activity and what level of intensity of their interaction, depends overall performance of holding.