Popovych O. Main Factors of the Efficiency of S&T and Innovation Policy in Their Systemic Interaction

The dissertation is devoted to systemic study of the set of institutional, economic and socio-cultural interactions of subjects and objects of the S&T and innovation policy in Ukraine, and their relevance to the specifics of Ukrainian legislation and overall innovation tendencies across the world. Also, dynamic specifics of the S&T potential as an organic element of the society which accommodates it are investigated, and the influence of administrative and mental bureaucratization on building up and realization of the S&T potential. The case of S&T priorities implementation is taken to show that disregard to systemic effects when organizing the management will lead to the transformation of the state policy into bureaucratic imitation of the useful activity, both from point of the systemic integrity in the structuring the executive bodies and distribution of their functional responsibilities and capabilities. Impermissibility of simplistic understanding of the term "S&T and innovation priority" is proved by studying the dynamics of the S&T potential. It's shown, that an innovation system will fail to adequately response on challenges of the time, if non-priority S&T areas exist in parallel with priority ones. Basic methodological errors are found in the procedure of forming the S&T priorities in Ukraine, and a methodology of priority hierarchization is proposed and implemented in the Act of Ukraine "On Priority Areas of Innovation Activities in Ukraine", by use of specifics implementation mechanisms at each hierarchical level. A method for prognosticating and analytical study is elaborated, which has been realized in working on the State Program for S&T and Innovation Forecasting, with recommendations on building up a permanently operating system for such forecasting.