DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE AS A BASIS OF DIVERSIFICATION PROCESSES OF UKRAINE'S ECONOMY

Abstract

Introduction. The subject of research is the analysis of forms and features, advantages and disadvantages of economic structure diversification. The relationship between the choice of models for the diversification of traditional or innovative and the creation of innovative infrastructures of the country. Modern conditions, directions, and problems of the innovation infrastructures development in Ukraine are investigated. The current state of innovative infrastructures park development is analyzed. Measures to improve the efficiency of their operation are proposed. The purpose and objectives of the study are to analyze the relationship between the development of innovation infrastructure and the processes of economic diversification and the identification of problems and ways to improve its efficiency. Method (methodology). The systematic approach, methods of analysis and synthesis are applied; the regulatory framework and reporting data of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine were used as an information basis. Results. Recommendations have been developed to ensure favorable conditions for the development and functioning of effective innovation infrastructure. Conclusions. One of the ways to successfully survive in a competitive environment is economic diversification, which forms the country's innovation infrastructure. The creation of innovative infrastructures and their successful development and operation objectively determines the emergence of intensive processes of diversification of the economy of regions and the country as a whole on a qualitatively new basis of innovative high-tech growth, reproduction of various goods and services. These structures give rise to two types of diversification – innovative when the production of innovative goods and services happens, and traditional diversification, which is expressed in a variety of ancillary activities necessary for their proper functioning. To maintain their competitiveness, economic entities must constantly maintain sustainable and efficient forms of economic systems, implement and master the innovations production, modifications, i. e.combine traditional and innovative activities. This is a productive and promising interaction of the processes of traditional and innovative diversification of economic entities in the economic system. However, despite the existence of some elements of the economic diversification system, today, the country lacks a holistic model for the development of effective innovation infrastructure. The existing in Ukraine separate structural elements of the innovation system and the legal field of their functioning are not built into a single innovative economic system, so the results of these elements are isolated and have no synergistic effect. The recommendations provided in the article help to provide favorable conditions for the formation and functioning of the effective innovation infrastructure in Ukraine.