It is commonly believed that innovations are an important factor in the development of an organization, especially the growth of its competitiveness. This thesis is not always confirmed by the results achieved by economic entities. The reasons for this may be mistakes made by managers in the field of innovation management. In particular, to these reasons belong: intuitive, random treatment of innovative activity, ambiguous understanding of innovations, lack of knowledge on models of the course of innovation processes. Therefore, it is reasonable to propose changes in the approach to innovation management. Thearticle attempts to solve the research problem contained in the question: do the models of innovation processes support to increasing the efficiency of innovative activity management? This is a general question. Answering this question required asking a few detailed questions, such as: 1) what are innovations and what is their impact on the development of an organization? 2) what are the generations of selected innovation models characterized by? 3) how to use the universal model of innovation to rationalize the innovative activity management? The answers to the above questions constitute the structure of the publication. The structure of the article has been enriched with an original proposal of the concept of model innovation management that may contribute to the rationalization of this process. In order to achieve the indicated goals, the following research methods were used: a critical and cognitive analysis of the literature, a descriptive and comparative method, and a projection method to propose a universal model of innovative processes management.
Keywords: innovation; marketing; model; organization; management