In the paper, the following types of innovations are considered: technological, marketing, organizational, environmental, strategic, managerial, and aesthetic ones. Also, the work considers one of the classifications of environmental innovation projects (depending on the goals achieved): single-purpose and multi-purpose. In the work, the special feature of technological structure of oil refining, petrochemical and chemical enterprises is highlighted which consists in the interconnection of production stages, the technological interconnection of by-products produced and production wastes formed. It is mentioned that in more detail the assessment of the economic efficiency of environmental projects, in work (Burenina, Kotov & Byl, 2017) is considered. It is noted that sometimes environmental investment projects can be attributed not to single-purpose (ecological) measures but to multi-purpose (technological) ones acc. to the way of their economic evaluation. An example of such a project developed by the scientific and technical staff of branch of FGBOU VPO Ufa State Petroleum Technical University in Sterlitamak (utilization of waste products of soda production) is considered and the results of the economic efficiency evaluation of this project are presented. The paper suggests a wider use of such measures of indirect action as product taxes (payments), a system of returnable deposits, trade in the rights (permissions) to emission, security deposit, and civil responsibility in order to increase the economic interest of enterprises in the implementation of environmental innovations. (c) 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK
