Abstract
Originality / value of the research. Subsoil use is of particular significance to ensure the country’s innovation and sustainable development and is considered to be one of the most important directions of national economic policy. Based on the proposed model of subsoil use public administration, a set of measures can be developed and implemented that will allow solving both current and strategic tasks of sustainable development of the mineral extractive industry of Kazakhstan. The integrated use of all proposed approaches in the developed model will increase the subsoil use industries’ competitiveness, stabilize the environmental situation and improve the quality level and degree of raw materials processing. Research methodology. In order to improve the existing methodological approaches to the natural resource exploiting sector innovation activities development of the national economy of Kazakhstan, the innovation activity public administration of subsoil use in Kazakhstan principles and criteria have been developed and improved. Findings. In conclusion, priority directions and ways of developing innovation activities public administration of the mineral resource sector of the economy are proposed, on the basis of which the sustainable development of the country’s subsoil use can be realized. As the results of the study, the innovation activity public administration of subsoil use in Kazakhstan priorities are determined.