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Abstract: The article is devoted to the solution of the problem of training the younger generation to realize their potential in the conditions of innovative economy, forming in its future subjects the necessary motivation and corresponding mentality. This was one of the motives for continuing modernization of the system general education in Russia. Special attention is paid to addressing the most urgent task of the educational system - the search for new effective forms of orienting school leavers toward innovative activity in the field of technical professions. And the ability to transform the results of creative activity into intellectual property and then in new products and services is considered to be a major competence of the future innovator. The authors suggest a possible way of training pupils of general education institutions to innovative activity based on the integration of project design and educational innovative activity of pupils. The article gives a new definition of educational innovative activity which is regarded as one of the types of educational creative activity aimed at solving educational-creative tasks in transforming the creative results of project activity of pupils into various kinds of subjectively new products and services for their prospective commercial realization. And educational innovative activity integrated with project activities, provides opportunities to motivate the students to self-organize their innovative activity at the stage of commercialization of results. This, according to the authors, is contributed to by the introduction into the content of educational innovative activity of elements of information search using the International Patent Classification and elements of analysis of inventions, as well as the basics of patent law and licensing work. The paper describes the structural-functional model of training pupils for innovative activity in the field of engineering and technology. The model reflects the pedagogical process of transformation of creative project design activity of pupils into educational innovative activity, and then into real innovative professional work.