Recovery and development of scientific and innovative potential of Ukraine in the post-war period (applied scientific research)
Terms of execution: 01.04.2023 30.09.2025
State Registration 0123U100631
Supervisor - Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Igor Yegorov
Customer - National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Main scientific and theoretical results
- This report summarizes the main trends in the evolution of Ukraine’s innovation development strategies. Along with an assessment of the positive aspects of the latest Strategy, adopted in December 2024, it identifies its significant shortcomings, including the lack of quantitative indicators for achieving key objectives, an exclusive focus on startups, and the poor structure of the material presented. Areas for addressing these shortcomings are highlighted. In doing so, special attention is paid to the need to align the provisions of this Strategy with the country’s overall goals for socio- economic development.
- Approaches to calculating estimates of losses to Ukraine’s scientific and innovation potential resulting from Russia’s military invasion, based on data from various sources and followed by procedures for comparing and verifying the information obtained.
- Justification of the need to strengthen the international component of Ukraine’s innovation policy through the dynamic and effective implementation of an innovation-driven model of economic development for Ukraine by increasing the country’s involvement in the activities of the EU Innovation Union and securing a more organic role and official status as an equal member within it.
- Highlighting the distinctive features of how the scientific and scientific-technical sectors operate in Ukraine, which lie in the fact that, under conditions of a full-scale invasion, the public sector of science demonstrated a higher level of resilience, while the private sector demonstrated the lowest. However, by 2023, only the private sector of science had recovered from the shock, thanks to demand from the defense and security sector for developments in the field of technical sciences, both in terms of the number of employees and the volume of funding.