Vlasenko J. The impact of industrial production and foreign trade on innovative development

Abstract

The article deals with the relationship between innovation and economic development processes taking place in the national industrial production and foreign trade. The features of the transformation process in Ukraine during the transition to a market economy in the context of innovation component are researched. The key factors that led to the decline of the innovative nature of the Ukrainian economic development during the market transformations are revealed. A periodization of transformation processes of the domestic economy through the prism of innovation is suggested; each stage is analyzed. The foreign trade destructive factors that influenced the innovative development of national economy of Ukraine are determined. The dynamics of conducting researches by national experts and the development of the application of results of these studies by national industrial complex of Ukraine are researched. Qualitative changes in Ukraine's human potential and their impact on the development of innovative economy in transition are analyzed. The main reasons and consequences of the continuing crisis of scientific and technological development of industrial and export potential of Ukraine are revealed. The structure of industry in Ukraine in terms of technology and knowledge-intensive manufactured products is researched. The greatest obstacles on the proceedings of advanced technologies in domestic industrial production are discovered. It is argued that the most acute problems of the industrial sector of the national economy are its old structure and low technological readiness of enterprises to update technology and innovation activity.