As the experience of mankind, no social problem is not resolved without the help of science. Today, when almost all countries of the global problem is the way out of financial crisis, the indisputable fact is that in countries where development has been an innovative leader, where science supported by government and business, the impact of the crisis were not as pronounced.
the other hand, severely damaged the state (that is, and the Ukraine), in which the economy was based on the use of raw materials and where not upgraded technology. In general, systemic innovation development - the priority of each of the technologically advanced countries such as Japan, Denmark, the Netherlands or Germany. In Ukraine, until recently there was no strategy of innovative development - a single balanced and long-term national science and technology and innovation policy. It is because of this now are in the 114-m site in terms of protection of intellectual property - close to Uruguay and Guatemala, and because of this so hard going through a crisis.
recently in Kiev, a presentation of the scientific journal The strategy of innovative development of Ukraine for 2010-2020 in the context of globalization challenges, the authors who became president of NASU, Academician Boris Paton, Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn, director of the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of NASU, Academician Valery Geyets, director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Yuri Pakhomov, rectors of the leading educational institutions, heads of scientific institutions, etc. As the researchers say, is a complete roadmap for innovation development of Ukraine.
More information about the importance of implementing the strategy in Ukraine - in an interview with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Science and Education, a leading researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor Vladimir Polohalom.
- Vladimir Ivanovich, the value of the strategy they say only the names of its authors ... But how realistic is now to refocus in the social and economic policies and, indeed, go to the innovative development?
- As for the book, it is - at 700 pages. In addition to performances of our leading scholars, it came in a draft strategy for innovation development of Ukraine for 2010-2020, designed by the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, to be exact - of the Center for scientific and technological capabilities of the history of science. Todorova, NASU, there is the concept of innovation that in June this year the Cabinet of Ministers adopted. In addition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, at our request six months preparing materials on innovation policy in foreign countries. This is a unique material that, what are the strategies in other countries and what exactly is the situation with the innovation development. We want to take it to the Verkhovna Rada and now it is still under construction at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ...
It is clear that the global crisis - this is a subject of research (as far as he drags on whether his second wave of what will be his algorithm), and is now talking about it, Academician Pakhomov and academic Geyets - that there is no single authoritative point of view on this subject . But the indisputable fact is that the very world financial and economic crisis has shown: the industries, enterprises and the whole country who did at one time bet on innovation, most of the crisis is not felt, or suffered less. I workout at an annual economic forum in Krynica (Poland), which is attended by representatives from 40 countries and there is well-known experts, such as from Japan and Germany, say the crisis - it is a reasonable chance for science and that it was at this time to try to change the thinking of business and political elites, civil servants. It is important to make use of it now.
For example, in Finland this year increased funding for science at the state level by 14% in Japan are going to concentrate funding on priority areas such as security, nutrition and the environment (it will be financed) in Germany proposed to fund research research work is not all universities, and individual innovation projects. The key to this work is that science, business and government must work together - this triangle should be, let's say, an equilateral. In Japan, Germany or Finland, the crisis has already forced to look at this situation this way. There business is interested in innovation, not only because of his worldview, but because of the fact that there are different ways to encourage businesses to support science and innovation.
Instead, the business in Ukraine is absolutely indifferent to innovation. And the problem is not even that he does not finance them. One of the reasons why we now have such consequences of the crisis - that all these 18 years of independence of the business that is born, like fast money. He has capitalized itself: a whole class of oligarchs on the basis of raw materials, mining economy by favorable conditions in world markets. But it is not modernized, not rebuilt, nothing invested in the modernization of production, Ukrainian business suffered greatly himself. And now for the big oligarchic business crisis hit like a boomerang. They wanted to work at the expense of the commodity economy and is not oriented to high technology, not science-intensive products, but relied on the commodity-mining economy. Click to continue »
