Lupak Ruslan L.

Ph. D. (Economics), Associate Professor, Lviv University of Trade and Economics

Parameters of the model realization innovative potential of economy in the context of realization state policy of import substitution

 

In the Ukrainian economy, complex conditions were created for the development of the real sector of the economy due to external military aggression, significant restrictions on international transit transportation of manufactured products, high degree of destruction of industrial and agricultural production facilities, transport and logistics infrastructure. The are still not possible problem of increasing the production of science-intensive products, the comprehensive introduction of new technologies and innovative processes, and the restructuring of the economy's structure into a higher technological way.

The real sector of Ukraine's economy continues to depend on the conjuncture of foreign markets due to the export orientation of resource and raw materials, to focus on low-tech and at the same time resource-intensive and energy-intensive production, to narrow the internal potential of technological development, curtail innovation activity and introduce new technological processes. Preservation of such a model will not in any way ensure the growth of industrial production of Ukrainian products, and especially high share of value added and the degree of import substitution, will restrict the introduction of scientific and innovation relations in the manufacturing sphere, will prevent the increase of innovation activity and technological readiness of production enterprises in accordance with the requirements and requirements of the new technological. As a result, the Ukrainian economy will only deepen the innovation and technological gap from the developed countries and will not be able to overcome the technological challenges of globalization.

Such activity cannot continue in this way, and it requires public authorities to stimulate structural transformation and to lay the technical, technological and innovative foundations for a new model of growth of the entire economy. It is necessary to systematize the strategic priorities of realization of innovative potential of development of the real sector of the economy, which will allow to form a structural model and to define clear guidelines for the state policy of ensuring technological competitiveness and import dependence.

In our opinion, the distribution of tools for such a state policy should be conducted taking into account the need:

- create and increase the scope of local integrated systems;

- develop innovative infrastructure;

- create institutional elements of interfactual and interbranch cooperation of the subjects of the basic types of economic activity, and scientific and innovation sector.

Formation of vertically integrated research and production business structures will enable to combine within them the resources and competencies for creation and development of closed cycles of production of higher technological methods, to increase the level of production concentration of industrial objects, to internal industrial enterprises to integrate with world production links and sales of innovative products.

Despite the integration processes, infrastructure facilities must be built up, which will contribute to the establishment of the national innovation system and the establishment of interconnections between the research, technological and manufacturing sectors. It is about the production-technological platforms (associations) of innovative activity (technoparks, technopolises, innovation-technological, engineering-engineering and engineering centers (parks), business incubators), information and communication systems (design-consulting, research and marketing centers ), financial-investment structures (credit-grant organizations, venture, insurance, extra-budgetary funds). The main mission of such objects is to ensure the development and support of all stages of the innovation cycle - from creation of innovations to their introduction into industrial production.

In the field of innovation activity should operate an institutional environment in which interfactual and inter-industry interconnections between the subjects of the industrial and scientific and technological sector. It is about the establishment and development of international scientific and technological and industrial cooperation, commercial-marketing innovation and technology cooperation, public-private partnership and relevant platforms for the joint development and implementation of innovations, special funds for investment and innovation support and advisory services. The main thing is that the creation of institutional elements contributed to the development and implementation of scientific and technical, targeted innovative programs, integrated programs for the development of high-tech science intensive technologies and the intensification of investment-innovation processes. It is important to ensure that legislation is effective in the relevant areas. As a result, it will be possible to rely on increasing the number and securing sectoral differentiation of investment and innovation projects, strengthening control over the implementation of measures to financially support innovation, general improvement of the regulatory framework for the regulation of innovation development.

It is necessary to take into account a number of peculiarities that will influence the changes in vectors, the selection of tools, the expected results of such a state policy. This is a study of the patterns of scientific and technological and innovation transformations in the regional economy, in which different processes of industrialization take place, stimulation of innovation activity, development of a market environment, etc. As a result, in the economy, due to regional features, spatial and territorial sectors of certain types of economic activity are formed, within which it is possible to develop the innovative potential of the branches more efficiently and to ensure their growth on a qualitative basis.

Industrial-developed in Ukraine are concentrated the eastern regions, where the main raw materials of the state are laid, powerful industrial facilities are built and the main possibilities of the closed production of higher technological facilities. The basic industries for such regions are ferrous metallurgy, mechanical engineering, chemical (petrochemical) and food industry. For the economy of such areas there is a characteristic dependence on the volumes of industrial production, foreign economic raw material and resource conditions and the efficiency and quality of the implementation of the achievements of advanced scientific and technological developments. Despite the significant innovation potential, the subjects of the real sector of the economy in these regions are not able to fully use their own capacities, develop competitive directions and areas of innovation, carry out work on technological and technological modernization, introduce knowledge-intensive technologies and support the pace of scientific and technological development [2, 39-45; 5, 93-103].

Industrial production of Ukrainian products takes place according to the standards of the third and fourth technological processes, the share of which exceeds 90.0 %. To affirm the establishment and development of higher technological processes in the real sectors of the national economy, including in the eastern regions do not have to, because their share does not exceed 5.0 %, and looking at the low intensity of investment processes in recent years, we can predict the preservation of this situation. In the eastern regions of Ukraine, the main volume of industrial products falls on metallurgy, fuel and energy, chemical complexes, heavy machinery and metal processing. High-tech industries are not prioritized in real market conditions, and therefore the development of electrical engineering and precision engineering, engineering, software engineering, and information services there is no need to indicate.

Border regions, especially in the western and southern parts of the country, have prominent transboundary and transit-logistic potential. The state of investment attractiveness of the border areas is low, which does not contribute to the formation and efficient use of investment and financial and resource support for their socio-economic progress and balanced socio-economic development of the state, is an obstacle to the realization of innovative potential by the subjects of the real sector of the economy of these territories [4, 105-112]. It also does not allow to fully develop the innovative activity of enterprises in these territories, poor state of production and technical base, low technological level of organization of transportation, inconsistency of the system of management of transport and road complex with the growing needs of society and European standards of quality of transport services.

For a long time, in regions with high transboundary transit and logistics potential, are not solved problems with improvement of transport infrastructure, increase of efficiency of tariff policy on transport, liberalization of customs transit procedures at border stations, creation of a ramified system of transport and logistics centers, etc. [1, 117-123; 2, 39-45]. In such regions of Ukraine there should be the fastest transformational changes that will:

- increase the innovative potential of the transport and road complex;

- provide support for the innovative activity of enterprises of the basic types of economic activity at all stages of the innovation process;

- stimulate the development of innovative directions and the wide introduction of advanced scientific and technological developments into real sector of the economy.

Unlike other regions of the central and northern part of Ukraine, they have a strong natural and climatic and resource-production potential, which creates opportunities for the agrarian sector, the production of high-quality agricultural products, food security and the implementation of a successful export policy. Given such favorable conditions, agro-industrial production in these regions is characterized by insufficient efficiency, which is confirmed by the [4, 105-112]:

- weakness of the financial and economic situation of agricultural enterprises;

- violation of the optimal structure of crops area crops;

- insufficient introduction of organic and mineral fertilizers;

- low level of state support for the effective use of land resources;

- lack of interest agricultural enterprises in introducing new technologies in agroindustrial production and use of land.

Effective use of agro-industrial potential in the regions with the corresponding specialization requires changes in the use of its production-resource capacities, techno-technological provision of agricultural production, implementation of resource-saving innovations for improving the quality and competitiveness of agricultural products in the domestic and foreign food markets. It is about the need to introduce new tillage technologies («precise farming»), agrotechnical measures to combat erosion processes, innovative operations to improve the fertility of agricultural land and increase the volumes of agro-industrial production of environmentally friendly products.

Also, a number of regions of Ukraine are distinguished by the level of scientific and technological development, as high concentration of higher educational establishments, academic institutions, research and design institutes (laboratories, centers, complexes) is high on their territories. Here we mean separate regions of central (Kiev), western (Lviv) and eastern (Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk) parts of Ukraine. In each of these regions there are more than 30 higher educational institutions (more than 70 in Kyiv), 10 research institutes of different specializations.

Another feature of the respective regions is that their regional centers are the platforms for the active development of the IT industry, which in the world economy has long been the main source of economic growth and strengthening competitiveness. The presence of such information and communication capacities in the regions is confirmed by an increase in the number of IT business entities, by increasing their export potential and by creating high-paying jobs. And in the case of further development of the IT sphere in the national economy, it may cause qualitative structural changes and large-scale modernization of the real economy sector.

Despite this, the use of internal scientific and technological potential remains ineffective, as evidenced by the low level and inefficient allocation of expenditures for scientific and scientific works, lack of adequate budget support, low levels of scientific and technical work, low practical feasibility of research, deterioration intellectual and personnel support of innovation activity, aging of scientific specialists [1, 117-123; 4, 405-112].

In our opinion, the effectiveness of implementing innovative potential by the entities of the real economy in the regions where the scientific and technological potential is formed and the IT sphere is actively developing will be conditioned by the level of:

- financial and investment support for scientific and scientific and technical works;

- fiscal stimulation of entrepreneurial activity in carrying out R & D;

- favorable investment conditions in the creation and use of scientific and technological developments;

- commercialization of intellectual property objects;

- preserving intellectual capital and preventing its emigration.

Thus, the characteristics given to innovative development tools and regional peculiarities of the formation and development of resource potential of the entities of the real economy sector allow, in subsequent studies, to comprehensively identify the list of expected results that can and should be achieved in the strategic perspective.

 

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