International High-Tech Cluster as a Component of the Modern Concept of European Integration into the Scientific-Educational and Innovation Space

Abstract

Ukraine requires modern industry for stable, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, which is based on the development and implementation of innovative technologies in Industry 4.0. High-tech productions and services have significant innovative potential. In order to develop them, Ukraine should make its profit of the opportunities of integration into the European Research Area as a tool for adapting the standards and norms of the European Union in the field of education, science and innovation. The work is aimed at substantiating scientific and methodological provisions for the formation of a relevant niche of Ukrainian-Polish scientific, educational and innovation space in the form of a pilot project to create an international high-tech cluster of Industry 4.0 with industrial enterprises and educational institutions. The scientific and methodical provisions of the experiment on the formation of the relevant niche of the Ukrainian-Polish scientific-educational and innovation space in the form of a pilot project to create an international high-tech cluster are substantiated on the example of the Pridneprovsky economic region. It is noted that its key actor can be recognized as a research center – an institution that is focused on performing specific functions in order to scientifically and innovatively ensure the modernization of industry regardless of administrative and territorial boundaries. The effective functioning of science parks is necessary to combine education, science and industry. The establishment of a representative office of the main stakeholder educational institution of the Polish side on the territory of the science park in Ukraine and a representative office of the Ukrainian research center in the Polish science park should provide both parties with PR support in the territory of the participating countries, access to market research, expert advice, investors and programmers communication.