Podluzhna N. Formation of knowledge economy in the system of complex development of the Ukrainian regions

The dissertation is devoted to the substantiation of theoretical and methodological principles and the development of practical recommendations for the formation of knowledge economy in the regions with a view to their complex development. The preconditions for formation of knowledge economy in the regions of Ukraine are found. The role of knowledge economy in the development of postindustrial space is given. The approaches to the definition of the essence of the category "knowledge economy" are systemized. Five forms of knowledge economy are identified: innovative, digital, creative, network and green economy. The semantics of the notion "knowledge development of the region" is identified. The methodological basis of diagnostics of the possibilities of formation of knowledge economy in the region is developed. The effect of meliorism in the formation of the knowledge economy, which is accompanied by innovative and creative development of social processes in the region, regulation of all the phenomena and making management decisions taking into account environmental safety, human development and economic expediency, dissemination of information and communication technologies and network interconnections is substantiated. The methodological basis of diagnostics of the possibilities of formation of knowledge economy in the region is developed. The world approaches to the diagnostics of the success degree of the formation of knowledge economy at the regional and national level are systemized. The guidelines for the activation of knowledge development in Ukraine depending on the components of the knowledge economy, identified on the basis of the study of the experience of countries with a knowledge economy according to the World Bank reports, are found. The content component and the problems of information provision of knowledge economy formation procedures in the regions of Ukraine are identified. The content component and the problems of information provision of knowledge economy formation procedures in the regions of Ukraine are identified. The scientific and methodological bases of the complex assessment of the region's contribution to the formation of the knowledge economy in the country are developed. The sequence of the stages of the complex assessment of the formation of knowledge economy in the region is given. The first stage consists in the formation of a list of indicators that characterize the formation of the knowledge economy at the international level. The second stage involves selecting among the indicators the most relevant ones for the comprehensive characterization of the worldwide trend of knowledge development. The third stage intends to define and justify benchmarks of indicators as a tool for determining the place of a country in the global knowledge rating. The fourth stage is related to the assessment of the region's contribution to the formation of the knowledge economy in the country. The indexes of estimation of potential possibilities of the region to formation of knowledge economy according to the following criteria: innovation; use of information and communication technologies; education of children, the youth and adults; science, development of high-tech industries are systemized. It is proposed to supplement the composition of the indicators of assessing the effectiveness of the formation of knowledge economy in the region by two new indicators: knowledge sharing and the level of focus of regional policy on the formation of knowledge economy. According to the method developed in the work, integration indicators of the evaluation of the success of the formation of the knowledge economy in the regions of Ukraine are calculated. Based on the results of the calculations, four groups of regions are distinguished, depending on the level of regional contribution to the success of the formation of the knowledge economy in the country. The further procedure of structuring the regions of Ukraine according to the criterion of similarity of the tendencies of the formation of the knowledge economy consisted of three successive stages: initial clustering of regions by the peculiarities of the formation of the knowledge economy; visualization of clustering results based on the use of the method of multidimensional scaling; secondary clusterization of regions of Ukraine depending on the location of objects in the information three-dimensional space. The contribution of the regions to the formation of the knowledge economy in Ukraine is determined. The grouping of regions of Ukraine according to the criterion of knowledge development as a result of primary and secondary clustering based on the scaling method for the conditions of the years of 2009 and 2016 is carried out. The measures aiming at accelerating the formation of knowledge economy in the regions of Ukraine, which should be reflected in regional development strategies, are developed.