Unfortunately, within the period of past two decades, Ukraine has rapidly lost
some of this potential, which is due to the natural consequences of aggravating the
demographic situation and the population’s ageing, mass migration (often − latent in
the form of “emolument”) of employees in various qualifications − from workers to
highly skilled professionals, including in the field of science and technology. In
addition, the loss of the labour potential part is associated with an increase in
population’s disability. Unfortunately, for our country, the problem of disabling the
economically active population is updated every year (especially given the events
associated with military actions in the ATO zone). The amount of disabled people over
the past 15 years has increased by 8,7%. Nowadays 2,7 million people (or 6,1% of
Ukraine’s total population) have a disability. For comparison − at the beginning of the
1990’s the people’s number with disabilities in the country was less than 3% of the
population (about 1,5 million people). Particular attention is needed by disabled people
of working age, for whom the problems of rehabilitation, social protection are closely
linked with the need to ensure their full socialization and effective employment [15-
16].
That is why the issue of “inclusive” innovations aimed at improving the well-
being of low-income and marginalized groups, in particular, from the viewpoint of their
access to the basic public services (education, infrastructure, health care), is becoming
more relevant. Inclusive innovation activity is aimed primarily at facilitating access to
basic goods and services and the expansion of economic rights and opportunities by
virtue of creation, obtaining, adaptation, mastering and disseminating knowledge
directly oriented to meet the needs of the population’s marginalized segments, which
include disabled individuals.
A significant contribution to the study of innovation development in Ukraine was
made by the national scientists O. Amosha, Yu. Bazhal, V. Heiets, I. Lukinov, M.
Pashuta, A. Chukhno and others. The problem of the national innovation system
formation is highlighted in the investigations of Ye.V. Morhunov, I.P. Topukh, L.
Yaremko, I.V. Brykova. The works of such Ukrainian scholars as Yu. Bazhal V. Heiets
Ya. Zhalilo I. Klymenko D. Pokryshka V. Semynozhenko, L.Fedulova are devoted to
the creation and increase of innovative competitive advantages of the Ukrainian
economy on the basis of effective functioning of the innovation system. In the scientific
works of I. Verkhovod, N. Koliadenko, O.Leushyna, D. Marshavin, L. Fokas the main
promotion directions to increase the competitiveness of disabled people were
determined, and the ways of social and professional rehabilitation and adaptation in the
labour market in the context of effective development of the innovative system were
proposed.
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