Institutional and organizational support of the implementation of smart-specialization model in Ukraine

Abstract

The problem of formation at the national level of sustainable institutional and organizational support for the implementation of the model of smart specialization on the basis of the rule of law and the implementation of modern European tools is considered. The methodological features of the smart specialization policy in the EU and the practice of its implementation as a basis for the formation of institutional and organizational support for the implementation of such a model in Ukraine are highlighted. The problems and contradictions of the modern mechanism of smart specialization, formed at the secondary level, are revealed. The threat of departure of modern legal regulation of strategic planning of regional development from the European methodology of smart specialization, real risks of monosectoral implementation of smart specialization in the framework of sustainable industrial development and further stagnation of the process of innovative transformation of economic sectors at different administrative levels. Taking into account the need to eliminate the existing significant shortcomings in the institutional and organizational support for the implementation of the smart specialization model, it is proposed to amend a number of laws of Ukraine, which lay the foundation for legally sound and structural legislation functioning at different administrative-territorial levels.