The Influence of Innovative and Scientific Activity on the Economic Development of Ukraine in the Context of Implementation of its Educational Policy: a Methodology of Estimation

Abstract

The article is aimed at defining the role of education through the innovative and scientific factors in enhancing the economic development of Ukraine in the context of the need to transition of the national economy to an innovative path of development. It is proposed to use certain indicators to assess the influence of innovation and scientific activities on the economic development of Ukraine and to conduct cluster and correlation analysis for the territorial differentiation of scientific and innovative activities in Ukraine. The groups of regions of Ukraine have been allocated according to the status of economic and innovative-scientific development, their comparison has been performed. The attention is focused on a significant regional diversification of the studied components, the regions of low, insufficient, middle and high levels of development are defined.

Keywords

• economic development
• innovative development
• educational policy
• national economy
• calculation method
• regional differentiation