The Contribution of Ukraine to the World Development of Technologies: Patent Citation Analysis of the Scientific Publications of Employees of the Ukrainian Institutions In 2009–2018

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of publications of Ukrainian scientific institutions on the development of world technology.Research methodology. An analysis of the cited scientific publications of employees of Ukrainian institutions in patents in 2009–2018 was conducted using the SciVal platform tools. Also, patents were analyzed, which contain references to scientific publications of employees of Ukrainian institutions.Results. The results show that only 476 patents cited publications of employees of Ukrainians institutions, which is significantly less than the number of citations of publications of employees of institutions from technologically developed countries. In addition, the average number of patent citations for Ukrainian publications turned out to be the lowest among all the neighboring countries of Ukraine. The results indicate some problems with the connection between science and industry in Ukraine.Novelty of this paper consists in using of the SciVal platform to collect the necessary patent and scientometric information. This allowed collecting data with much wider chronological coverage and range of disciplines than in previous studies.The practical significance consists in identifying the successful experience of the employees of Ukrainian scientific institutions who create a scientific product that influences the development of world technologies for funding the authors of commercially promising results of scientific and technical activities at the state level. Also, the proposed approach can be used in the process of identifying technologically promising areas of national research.