THE SCIENTIFIC EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AS A DETERMINANT OF THE GLOBAL COMPETITIVE LEADERSHIP
Keywords:
global scientific educational market, map of a market, countries, leadership, competition, university-industry collaborationAbstract
The modern scientific periodic editions contain few arguments concerning the high role of a scientific-educational infrastructure (SEI) in the global knowledge economy. The main theoretical approaches to scientific, technological, and innovation policies as tools use the development of the infrastructure. According to the position of the World bank, the education, innovation system, and information-communication infrastructure are considered to be the basic components of the knowledge economy. The virtual and physical infrastructures are referred to the key components of the intellectual capital. The research universities and the university-industry collaboration (UIC) affect the economic development, since they implement a wide range of functions, by taking various forms. The role of the government consists mainly in the motivation of their improvement. The complementarity of academic researches and the usage of their results in the industry is the main driving factor in the intensification of UIC. The developed countries recognize the important role of SEI in the support of the efficiency of a critical infrastructure.
The paper addresses the criticality of a scientific-educational infrastructure in the ensuring of a global competitive leadership of countries on the basis of the correlative analysis and the construction of the competitive market maps by qualitative indicators, which are used by the World economic forum in the calculation of the Global competitiveness index. It is found that the infrastructure belongs to those factors, which are most closely related to the GDP per capita. The construction of the maps of the world scientific-educational market by the example of UIC demonstrated the leading positions of developed countries and the weak position of Ukraine. The solution of the problem of the development of a scientific-educational infrastructure should be based on the axiom of long-term duration and continuity of the very process of development, as well as the action of a high-quality scientific-educational infrastructure. Ukraine should realize the defining role of science and education for the transition to the innovative stage of development.
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