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The article reveals the content of readiness for innovative activity as an integrative characteristic of the professional training of engineers for high-tech production. Various approaches to defining the concept of innovation are shown. According to various authors, the term "innovative activity" is considered as a type of activity, as a process, as a system of activities. The article presents the conceptual provisions used in the development of a model for the formation of engineers' readiness for innovation in high-tech production. Also shown is the author's interpretation of the structural components Models of the readiness of engineers to innovate for the hightech industry. The relationship between all components of the model is determined. The result of the developed model of an engineer for a high-tech industry is a specialist who combines both engineering training and knowledge in the field of management; capable of developing new high-tech products; conduct business planning in the innovation area; spend management audit of functional divisions of the high-tech industry; to develop strategic, tactical and operational plans, budgets of high-tech enterprises; to increase the efficiency of functioning of enterprises in knowledge-intensive industries, etc. This model, being universal, can serve as the basis for the development of methods, technologies for training specialists in other areas and can be translated for the organization of similar educational systems.