Methodology to investigate innovation process in a corporation

The issue of forming tools and mechanisms to improve management in modern corporations on the basis of new methodological and instrumental approaches has not been developed enough in modern research, devoted to the transition of Russian economy into innovative development. The author proposes a new method to investigate innovative process in which theoretical methodological principles and systematic setting of general objectives in planning, aimed to optimize the resource exploitation through investment, financial, technical, production and informational facilities of a corporation have been formulated.