Project-oriented approach in innovation management

The article deals with the systemic transformation of higher education in Russia, which has identied a crucial feature causing the efciency of the education system - the active development of innovation activities in higher school that corresponds to global trends, reecting the formation of the «entrepreneurial university», in which the realization of innovative activity is seen as the «third mission» of the university.In this regard, the formation of the corresponding submitted conceptual and categorical apparatus seems topical. Modern trends of reforming the system of higher education of the Russian Federation should be taken into account. The authors review the project-oriented approach, which is the basis of innovation management in the «Russian-British Institute of Management».