The thesis paper makes the theoretical and methodological substantiation of conceptual foundations and mechanisms regarding public management of intellectual potential of the region as a basis for sustainable development in the conditions of decentralization of the power in Ukraine.
The relevance of the chosen research topic is defined by the fact that Ukraine has joined the global pursuance of sustainable development by elaborating appropriate mechanisms to develop the economy based on knowledge and innovations, which encourages the search for ways to ensure this process. Public management of intellectual potential is a basis of this strategy at the state, regional and local levels.
The generalization of a significant number of interpretations of intellectual potential allowed the author to conclude that intellectual potential is an inseparable unity of quantitative and qualitative aspects, the real and the possible, and simultaneously reflects three levels of connections and relations: retrospective, representative, as well as futurological, and is not only a set of resources, reserves and opportunities, but also the multidimensional abilities of the social system to realize its opportunities through intellectual activities. The particular interest in the study of territorial development, the problem of reproduction on the territory, assessment and implementation of potential of each territorial unit, and active involvement of their resources in the economic circulation is conditioned by the fact that many trends in economic and social development arise exactly in territorial communities and regions.
The application of the methodological triad of research on the basis of integration of systemic, universalist, and activity-related paradigms allowed to determine the structural and functional characteristics of intellectual potential of the region, understood by the author as the extent of its ability, at a given level of its development, in a specific space-time continuum, to convert the opportunities contained in its available intellectual resources, in order to ensure the priorities of regional development based on a body of knowledge, information, innovative technologies, intellectual property and capacity to set and achieve goals, which is constantly reproduced.
