From the modern positions of market development, the place of the school of human resources management in the evolutionary scheme of the school of modern management is considered. Comparison of the model positions of the school of human relations and the model of the human resources school is given. The contents of the basic postulates of the school of human resources management are considered in detail, including: the attitude to the human factor as a source of the enterprise's income; creation of conditions for the development of each employee; integration of personnel policy of the enterprise into the general policy of the enterprise and into the social and economic policy adopted in the society; professional development and training of competent and interested employees; development of social partnership through democratization of governance; improving the quality of working life by enriching the content of work. The prospects of using these postulates in the formation and development of modern business strategies are shown. 

This article was considered such a notion as the financing of innovative activities, as well as sources, methods and instruments of financing. Statistical data on the number of costs of organizations engaged in innovation activities were presented.

The article is devoted to the problems of interaction between customs authorities and participants in foreign economic activity, ways of developing the customs system and supporting business through the introduction of modern information technologies, a comparative analysis of key indicators of assessing the quality of customs services in accordance with the road map " 10 steps towards the business "and the indicators presented in the existing system for assessing the performance of customs bodies of Russia Federation.

The author poses the problem of the conflict of local decisions about the implementation of an innovative project using traditional methods and evaluating the effectiveness of the system before and after the introduction of an innovative solution.

The development of the global economic system leads to the fact that modern production is becoming more technological and capital intensive, requires highly skilled labor and cannot provide work places for a large number of low-skilled workers. In addition, each high-tech work place creates several additional work places in other industries. Many technologies that were first used in industrial production were later used in other industries, increasing their efficiency and competitiveness and thus ensuring the overall economic development. Scientific research and development for the industry are becoming more transdisciplinary; hybrid research areas as well as cross-disciplinary technologies appear. The main problem is that the Russian industrial complex is not ready for unconditional acceptance of these global technological challenges for the most part organizationally, not economically. We need a simple and well-defined organizational and economic mechanism of technologizing of domestic production. Despite the current economic difficulties, there are enough sources of such technological transition funding. They are: entry into the large-scale investment and infrastructure projects on a national scale; participation in projects of field development of the leading oil and gas companies; the programmes of innovative development and R&D programmes of state companies, industrial state programmes; subsidies and grants of development institutions; private funds of enterprises, etc.