Abstract
The object of the research is the investment process of modernization of chemical production. The long-term systemic crisis in the Ukrainian chemical industry, unprofitability and high capital intensity of production are constraining factors for its radical modernization. Modern tasks of digitalization of production and introduction of smart innovations form new problems and require new approaches to their solution.In the process of research, the methods of analysis and synthesis, comparison, structural analysis, generalization and graphical method were used.The analysis of foreign practice of innovative investment in chemical production found that the development strategies of companies and their investment priorities depend on the role of the segment in the global value chain. Industry leaders are diversifying their investment portfolios in the direction of high technologies for deep processing and production of high-tech low-tonnage products. At the same time, the technologies of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing become an integral part of their innovative investment strategies.The study of trends and problems of investment support for the Ukrainian chemical industry showed that its traditional business model is gradually losing its resource and technological basis, and there are not enough investments within the industry for large-scale modernization. For external investors, certain segments of the chemical industry, producing liquid differentiated small-tonnage consumer goods, are of particular interest.Promising approaches to the revitalization of investment activities in the chemical industry in the context of the formation of the Industry 4.0 are identified. They are based on the special role of chemical production as a supplier of smart materials and technologies, making it a necessary component of any innovation ecosystem. It is shown that external investments for the smart modernization of the industry should be sought among the industries consuming chemicals.It is substantiated that small and medium-sized enterprises should become the key subject of Industry 4.0 processes in the Ukrainian chemical industry. Considering the insufficient technological readiness and investment support of such entities, their specialized support and program financing is necessary.The proposed approaches allow overcoming the existing internal and external limited financial resources and mobilizing investments to launch smart modernization of chemical production.
Highlights
Industry 4.0 is a new modern paradigm of industrial development, it forms models for the problem-solving of the Industrial Internet of Things and processes their so lutions in various industrial sectors
Neoindustrialization of chemical production provides, among other things, the creation of high-tech environmentally friendly low-tonnage production in the segments of the special and «fine» chemistry based on innovative technologies. In investment terms, such a transformation of strategic benchmarks in the development of chemical production means the possibility of a parallel-sequential investment method, when the creation of high-value-added industries is financed by funds generated by the previous stages
The proposed approaches to the revitaliza tion of industry investment in the context of Industry 4.0 take into account the international experience of the neoindustrial development of chemical production, the current problems of investment support for the modernization of the Ukrainian chemical industry and the special role of chemical production in the processes of the fourth industrial revolution
Summary
Industry 4.0 is a new modern paradigm of industrial development, it forms models for the problem-solving of the Industrial Internet of Things and processes their so lutions in various industrial sectors. The promotion of digitalization of industry and its transition to the principles and fundamentals of the Industry 4.0 concept is one of the topical directions for implementing the Strategy for the development of the industrial complex of Ukraine for the period up to 2025 within the framework of the strategic objective «Modernization and growth of industrial production». The essence of this direction, the developers of the project Strategies see in the «digitization of all tangible assets and integration into digital ecosystems and value chains of the partner countries» [2]. The actual stage of research is the analysis of sectoral aspects of industrial investment in the context of the objectives of Industry 4.0
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