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The article highlights the experimental results of the research aimed at improving the innovative abilities of students when studying at university, demonstrating the possibilities of socio-psychological training as a tool for development of innovative abilities. The object of the research is the characteristics of innovative personality; the subject of the research is the impact of socio-psychological training on development of students» innovation in when studying at higher institution. As a result of the theoretical analysis, the authors found a discrepancy between the scientific ideas about the filling of the construct «innovativeness» of a person, despite the common nature of identifying certain features characteristic of an innovative person (creativity, communicative competence, reflexivity, risk, striving for success, etc.). The authors proposed a program for development of innovative personal features and provided an assessment of the effectiveness of the program using psychological testing and methods of mathematical statistics on a sample of 80 students. As a result of the experiment, the subjects from the experimental group became more curious, began to relate to a greater degree the possibility of achieving success with changes and manifestation of activity, and also perceive themselves as more creative people, they increased the number of proposed ideas, their originality and development. These results, as well as the emergence of significant differences with a predominance of high values for the studied parameters of «innovativeness» in subjects from the experimental group compared to the control group, allows us to conclude about the effectiveness of the proposed program for the development of innovative personality traits in the youth environment in the process of learning at the university.