The dissertation suggests the development of theoretical and methodological provisions and practical recommendations to secure scientific and technological activity in Ukraine.
The thesis introduces the concept of securing scientific and technological activity (STA) in Ukraine, based on confirming a number of hypotheses that link together the country’s socio-economic development, innovation, priorities and results of the STA, the STA potential and the state of scientific personnel training, and take into account development problems and problems of the STA securing. A toolkit for the STA assessment is suggested, based on the calculation of an index, which takes into account the STA potential and results, and makes it possible to rank the world countries according to their level of the STA development. A theoretical and methodological approach to determining the STA role in ensuring sustainable socio-economic development has been suggested. Organizational support to study the STA problems in the country and ways of its securing is suggested, resulting in complex and systematic analysis of the specified processes, and stipulating for the fulfillment of the following stages: 1) definition of the STA role in the country’s social and economic development; 2) formation of conceptual bases for the STA securing; 3) assessment of the STA state in the country and its securing; 4) real and model identification of the STA securing problems in the country; 5) substantiation of the ways for the STA securing in Ukraine. The theoretical and methodological approach to identifying the STA problems in Ukraine is suggested. Analytical support for assessing the level of scientific personnel training in Ukraine and in the world, in general, is offered. A theoretical and methodological approach to the model identification of factors influencing the STA securing is developed on the basis of cognitive approach, thus allowing researchers to create a problematic area, to analyze the interaction of the STA problems in Ukraine and scenarios of problematic situation development depending on stimuli by individual components of the STA securing. A theoretical and methodological approach to substantiate the ways of the STA securing in Ukraine is formed, which, in contrast to the existing ones, makes it possible to mark growth areas of the country's economy on the basis of the effective use of available resources and opportunities to improve the STA securing, and provides the following: 1) analysis of the global STA trends and priority areas.; 2) identification of the promising sectors (as for the STA) in Ukraine’s economy and assessment of scientific support for their development; 3) substantiation for choosing perspective general-purpose technologies and the STA areas in the country; 4) substantiation for scientific personnel training programs; identification of priority areas for the STA securing, making it possible to secure the STA, taking into account both global STA development trends and features of economic development, and the situation with the STA in the country. Practical recommendations are formulated helping to determine the ways of securing the STA based on the five-link spiral model and on the results of the model identification of the factors influencing the STA securing and making it possible to take into account the goals of stakeholders (i.e., education, government, business). The essence of interconnected concepts in the field of scientific and technological activity is specified.
