ONE STEP FORWARD AND TWO STEPS BACK – DECLARATIONS AND REALITY OF THE STATE POLICY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND HIGH-TECH PRODUCTION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The peculiarities of the policy being implemented in Ukraine for development of science, innovation and high-tech production are formulated. It is determined that prolongation of financial and economic conditions for the restoration of own production without activating innovation or acquisition of innovative technologies causes reduction of domestic production of innovative products. Today, the introduction of new scientific and technological developments and technological decisions, which are based on the results of domestic scientific research, takes place under conditions of narrowing format of reproduction of the sphere of science and innovations in Ukraine.
Comparative analysis of Ukraine’s performance during 1996-2016 is carried out in relation to similar parameters of science and technology development in the countries of Eastern and Western Europe, East and South-East Asia and North America. It is substantiated that Ukraine is the only one among these countries, which used the previous 20-year period of its own development not to increase financial allocations for the development of domestic science and to strengthen its personnel potential, but rather to reduce them. It is determined that priority directions of development of domestic high technologies – aviation and pharmaceuticals, which account for 48.7% and 43.7% respectively in the structure of Ukrainian high-tech production – are measured as 0.1% and 0.04% in the world market. This clearly indicates the real low level of effectiveness of the status of innovation priority in both the state policy of innovation development of the economy and the economic policy of the state as a whole.
Based on comparative analysis of the dynamics of development of branch of science, sector of high technologies, knowledge services and processing industry, a conclusion is drawn that the previous stage of the national economic formation passed by the country has led to a situation in which the indicators of innovative development of the national economy of 1990s are desirable landmarks of the perspective period of Ukraine’s development.