ANALYSIS OF THE STATE OF TRENDS INNOVATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE REGION
Abstract
World experience shows that for the breakthrough innovative development of the country, the creation of infrastructure support is of particular importance, which allows for the implementation of highly effective types of innovations on a wide scale.
Innovative development of the region must necessarily be based on scientific and technological progress, the development of information technologies, scientific and production potential, all this can be called - an innovative infrastructure, which includes: the sphere of concentration of scientific achievements in production; authorities of different levels; public organizations and business associations; organizations involved in training, the creation of a scientific society, holding scientific events (conferences, round tables, fairs, exhibitions); large-scale innovation centers; innovative clusters based on the scientific community, industrial and technological centers.
Therefore, at this stage of development, both the country and the region, there is a need to analyze the state of development of innovation infrastructure. This will create the necessary basis for making informed decisions about the choice of directions of innovation development and provide the necessary balance of innovative resources of the region.
Innovative infrastructure plays a key role in the development of the region's economy, since its existence is associated with the state of productive forces and the territorial division of labor, as well as the efficiency of the sphere of material production. Innovative infrastructure, on the one hand, depends on the pace of modernization, and on the other hand, it is itself the supplier of the region's economic growth.
Innovative infrastructure of every region of Ukraine has its own peculiarities and differences in functioning. This can be seen from the example of the innovative infrastructure of the Volyn region, which has a number of prevailing geographic, historical, economic, resource, socio-cultural and other factors of economic development, but unfortunately, it occupies only the average position in Ukraine on achievements in innovation activity.
The conducted analysis of the objects of innovative infrastructure in the Volyn region made it possible to identify the operating organizations of the region, which are engaged in innovation activities and assess the level of their activities.
According to the results of conducted researches and according to the information of the Main Department of Statistics in Volyn Oblast in 2017, 17 industrial enterprises carried out innovation activities (in 2016 - 11), which is by 5.8% more than in the previous year.
In order to improve the innovation infrastructure of the region, to intensify inventive, innovative and scientific activity, it is necessary to focus efforts of all participants of this innovation process on the following directions:
1) ensuring the development and prioritization of perspective innovative projects that have a decisive impact on the efficiency and competitiveness of the region's economy; improvement of mechanisms of provision of preferential loans of banks for the implementation of innovative projects;
2) rehabilitation and development of existing production-technological and scientific potential, formation of interregional innovation market; science-intensive and innovative entrepreneurship;
3) legislative regulation of the sphere of intellectual property in order to commercialize it;
4) development of the objects of innovative infrastructure and raising the level of education of their leadership, for example, techno parks as places of joint assembly and free cooperation of investors and producers, students and scientists;
5). Constant updating of the database of new technologies, innovative projects and the search for potential investors;
6) developing a mechanism for providing incentives to enterprises that introduce innovative products and new technologies
