leaders" and digital entrepreneurs - that is, top-level managers who understand how to
implement digital transformation of business processes. A separate task is the state's
work with the media - in order to prepare our citizens for future changes, warn about
risks, and conduct digital education.
7. Ensuring cybersecurity. A critical condition for the development of the digital
economy is the assurance of all economic entities that collected, stored and used data
are protected from criminal encroachments. In the end, only the state can provide such
confidence. To this end, several problems need to be solved: to work out legal norms
for combating cybercrime, to have qualified cyberpolicy, to develop technological
solutions and standards, and to ensure cross-border interaction (since cybercriminals
do not know the boundaries). At the same time, we must not forget that securing
security is secondary to the task of development and growth.
8. Development of new technological solutions. In digital technology, the path
from basic research to research is extremely short to commercial use. An example of
this is: rapidly moving into the commercial stage of research on a quantum computer
or artificial intelligence. In these conditions, the state should not only maintain a high
level of financing of scientific projects from the budget, but also find the right tools for
attracting non-state funds to search studies, stimulate the development of corporate
science, develop initiative research projects, train scientific organizations capable of
combining the qualities of a scientist and an entrepreneur.
9. Promotion to foreign markets. The growing wave of the emergence of
fundamentally new products and services based on digital technologies, give a new
chance to Ukrainian producers. The state can support this trend by providing marketing
information, supporting participation in foreign exhibitions and conferences, providing
subsidies and guarantees for export credits, offsetting the costs of patenting, forming
investment funds aimed at conducting M & A transactions abroad.
10. Cross-border cooperation. The development of modern digital technologies
has made national boundaries transparent. The work on innovative projects employs
joint teams of representatives from different countries, new solutions and services are
instantly distributed around the world, competition has become transnational. Attempts
to impose restrictions on international cooperation very quickly undermine the
competitive positions of domestic producers, as a result of which a too straightforward
struggle for national security leads to its undermining. It is necessary to ensure that
Ukrainian users can use the services offered by the world market for cross-border
transmission of unclassified data (including through scientific and technological
exchange, medical consultations or telemetry data on the operation of industrial
equipment). It is necessary to stimulate the entry of Ukrainian companies into global
technological alliances that form technological standards for years to come.
Winter 2018 was the turning point in the consciousness of the Ukrainian
establishment and expert community the importance of digital technology topics for
further development of the country. The most important factor of this shift was the
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