sphere of the country. It will also create the conditions for the modernization of
manufacturing industries and provide for the implementation of a policy for sustainable
social and economic development of the country.
High level of innovation security contributes to national technological, research
and development, and manufacturing potential; stimulates the development of priority
directions in fundamental and applied research, in technical and technological
developments ensuring the competitiveness of the national economy; promotes
penetration on the global markets of high-tech products, fosters the dissemination of
scientific, technical and technological developments; guarantees protection of
intellectual property rights, including the areas of foreign economic activity and
scientific and technical cooperation; supports implementation of effective monitoring
in the field of technologies and scientific developments of strategic importance inside
the country and abroad [4].
Strengthening of economic security in Ukraine depends on the introduction of a
fundamentally new model of economic development aimed at mitigating the threats
arising from competitive mechanisms. The core of this model of economic
development rests on an effective mechanism for ensuring economic security, which
is flexible enough to interact with the impacts of external and internal factors. It is
adaptable to changes and consists of interconnected and interdependent elements that
render this mechanism operational.
Considering the organisational and economic mechanisms of ensuring economic
security, we see it as a set of economic and legal methods and tools used by a country
in the process of economic security management to offset external and internal threats
and ensure the effective functioning of economy. The organisational and economic
mechanism for ensuring a country’s economic security has regulatory, organizational
and institutional, human resources, information and analytical pillars that are aimed at
the effective functioning of the financial, energy, foreign trade, demographic, social
and investment-innovative subsystems. Yet, Ukraine uses the so-called "passive"
provision of the national economic security based on responding to challenges, dangers
and threats stemming from deviations of the actual values of indicators of economic
security from their safe levels, which constitutes a situational response that could help
eliminate existing threats and minimize their negative impact on the system of national
economic security.
The use of this approach to ensure Ukraine’s economic security under a
significant number of external and internal risks and threats is one of the reasons of
deteriorating systemic economic crisis in the country and its relatively acceptable
performance due to inertia.
Operational elimination of threats and the principle of preventive measures
require early detection of threats using the internal and external information of the
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