ORGANIZATIONAL AND ECONOMIC MECHANISM BEHIND THE CREATION AND FUNCTIONING OF TECHNOPOLES

Abstract

Presently, finding priority areas as well as organizational and technological forms of innovation becomes crucial for the development of both high-tech and traditional sectors of the domestic economy. Solving problematic issues requires improved mechanisms of management and intensified interaction between the subjects of innovation processes, as well as the formation of such infrastructure facilities that can become vibrant hubs generating and implementing innovations and new technologies. Relying on the systemic approach, the paper aims to elaborate the theoretical and methodological principles shaping the concept of organizational and economic mechanism of creation and maintenance of technopoles. The following general and special research methods were employed: those of theoretical generalization and deduction, system-structural analysis, and system analysis. The basis for the analysis were statistical data on the state of innovation in Ukraine collected for the period 2017-2020, research on the effectiveness of organizational forms of innovation and scientific work of Ukrainian scientists on this issue.
 The paper discusses and outlines the essence of organizational and economic mechanism of creation and maintaining the technopolis, determines the structural elements of the mechanism from the systemic standpoint. The research uncovers positive dynamics in relation to the innovative activity of industrial enterprises and reveals a few main factors that inhibit innovative activity. It is argued that in order to improve the efficiency of technopoles and other facilities of innovation infrastructure it is vital to focus on the following priority areas: the introduction of untapped opportunities, intensification of state innovation policy, provision of additional support for regional innovations. Implementation of the developed organizational and economic mechanism of formation and development of technopoles and other facilities of innovation infrastructure can significantly improve the efficiency of their operation and raise the level of innovation.