Intercultural communication as a source of professional competences for innovative activity

Purpose – to analyze the impact of intercultural communication on the professional innovative activity, to assess the possibility of developing of the professional competencies to innovative activity through intercultural communication. Methods: hypothetical-deductive method, formalization, generalization, classification, systematization, extrapolation. Results. The bilateral relationship between intercultural communication and innovative activity is grounded. A person, who is more capable of cross-cultural communication, is more capable of innovative activity too, he / she is more opened, flexible, adaptive and creative. It is therefore important to develop, in the professional training of future specialists, the intercultural competence - the ability to cross-cultural contacts: to teach them to recognize cultural diversity not as an obstacle but as a positive diversity, as a source of new potentially useful information. For future professionals of innovative activity, it’s even more important than for others. The process of innovations’ working out often deals with problems of creating something new, of forming of new ideas. And any variety can help, because another person is a treasure trove of new points of view. Intercultural communication can be a source of new ideas, new knowledge and skills, new professional competences, as well as a new channel to promote an innovative product to different target groups.