Science and Technological Policy in the Ukraine: European and Regional Aspects

Abstract

The leading feature of the research and technological situation in many newly independent states that chose the way of radical changes in political and economic structures and gradual insertion into the European community of countries and people, Ukraine among them, is persistent deterioration of scientific and technological potential. Ever reducing number of researchers and critical decline in the welfare of the scientific personnel rapidly antiquate both moral and physical material and technical basis of our science. Entire research groups, schools and institutes that were maintained and preserved over decades die out. Research productivity sharply dropped. The state cast into deep economic and financial crisis does not reciprocate the impulses originating in society for the needs of scientific and technological renovation.