The Classification of the Regions of Ukraine on the Level of Development of Knowledge Economy

Abstract

The article considers the basic approaches to measuring the knowledge economy. The similarity of Ukraine’s regions was analyzed according to the «knowledge economy» criterion with the use of the KAM (Knowledge Assessment Methodology). Cluster analysis was used as the primary tool in such a methodology. The author considers different types of sinter relationships in this approach, namely, the single link, the centroid method, the Ward’s minimal variation method. The latter one was used during the study, as it was best suited to an analysis in which the subjects were territorial units. To this end, the statistical base of values of the key influence factors for 2012 and 2015 was used. Cluster maps have been built to display sinter entities similarities between the regional knowledge-based economies.

Keywords

• knowledge economy
• cluster analysis
• knowledge assessment methodology