It should be noted that over the past three years, the index of innovation has been
slow but growing: from 36.45 in 2015 to 38.52 in 2018. In Switzerland, which is in
first place, this index is 68.40 (out of 100), and in Yemen, which occupies the last line
of the rating, - 15.04.
Europe is one of the large-scale solvent and innovative markets, mastered and
filled by many countries in the world, such as the USA, Japan, China, India, Brazil,
Russia. Innovation in production in the EU exceeds 75%.
The economic attractiveness of the European Union for Ukraine lies primarily in
the ability to engage in a high culture of effective market economy and raise its own
economy to the same level. The EU's high innovation potential is one of the most
powerful and motivating factors for Ukraine's European integration choice.
The main problems concerning the direction of the Ukrainian agrarian sector in
the innovation vector are as follows:
- not an innovative mentality of the population of Ukraine, in particular the state
apparatus of management, the entrepreneurial community;
- Excessive tax burden does not promote the development of innovative
entrepreneurship;
- Insufficient investment support of scientific and technical and innovation
activity;
- lack of effective measures and tools to stimulate innovation activity of
entrepreneurship, in particular, modern system of state procurement and ordering;
current legislation does not promote the receipt of innovative products;
- involvement of only isolated enterprises and organizations in the innovation
process;
- weak organizational and normative support for the development of business
entities in the innovation sector;
- Insufficient degree of introduction at the enterprises of the newest information
technologies;
- the comparatively low ability of enterprises to borrow and develop, adapt new
technologies;
- low level of solvent demand for innovation;
- Low share of qualitative education of staff;
- low level of protection of intellectual property, certification services of
innovative products;
- shortage of skilled workers, managers and specialists.
That innovation must play a strategically important role in the efficient
transformation and agricultural development of Ukraine, boosting agricultural
businesses, providing the ability to compete in domestic and foreign markets,
especially in a market economic system, integration into the global agro production
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