Innovative Transformation of the Post-War Economy of the Regions of Ukraine: The Prospects for the Integration of Education, Science, and Business

Abstract

The theoretical-methodological basis for the integration of education, science and production as a basic prerequisite for the innovative transformation of the post-war economy of the regions of Ukraine is formed, providing for the restoration of manufacturing, infrastructure and residential objects destroyed by the warfare, the formation of modern poles of growth of regional economic complexes and the creation of a favorable living environment (raising social standards and improving the quality of the environment) on innovative principles. Studies have shown that the recovery of the personnel and material-technical potential of educational institutions and scientific institutions, as well as the restoration of the pre-crisis interconnection of these institutions with enterprises of the real sector of the economy, is of paramount importance in developing promising directions for innovative transformation of the post-war economy. Programming of priorities of innovative transformation of the post-war economy of the regions should be based on the identification of territorial heterogeneity of the level of research and innovation component of the development of regional economic complexes through the calculation of the integral index of innovative transformation of the regional economy, which is determined on the basis of a number of individual indices of scientific research and innovation activity. The results of the calculation of the integral index of innovative transformation of the regional economy in 2017–2020 showed that a relatively high level of development of research and innovation components of the development of regional economic complexes is observed only in the Kharkiv region, where an extensive network of research institutions and educational institutions is concentrated, most of which have actively cooperated and continue to cooperate with industrial enterprises. Studies have shown that in most regions of Ukraine in 2017–2020 there was a relatively low level of development of research and innovation components of territorial socioeconomic systems. It is found that the positioning of the regions of Ukraine in the pre-war period (2017–2020) in terms of the level of development of research and innovation components of regional reproduction should be a prerequisite for differentiation of instruments and methods of innovative transformation of the post-war economy of the regions of Ukraine, which will ensure the restoration of residential, infrastructure and industrial facilities destroyed by the war and create new poles of economic growth on an innovative and technological basis.