REGIONAL INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT ZONES AS A FACTOR OF INFLUENCE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Today is characterized by the rapid appearance of the latest technologies in almost all spheres of human life, which radically and fundamentally change them. Today, digital technologies are defined as one of the most powerful factors in the growth of economic activity, not only from the point of view of an individual enterprise, a local country, but also from the point of view of the global economy. Technological progress within the framework of the use of digital technologies is manifested not only in the process of production and use of technologies, as it happened during the first scientific and technological revolutions, but also in the development of human and social capital, which leads to changes in almost all layers of the economy and its structure. Undoubtedly, this growth of digital technologies is primarily related to the development of science and technology in production, the latest approaches in management, but the main factor is mostly an increase in investment in science, education and people in general. Economic growth is impossible without the development of science, technology and social sciences. In turn, the creation of new knowledge requires not only a considerable amount of professional human resources, but also considerable funding and investment in these resources. There is a structured interdependence between education (knowledge) and the emergence of new technologies: without technologies, there is no development in any branch of the economy (including science); without science, there are no changes in technology. The modern theory of the behavior of economic subjects has finally moved from utility maximization models to the consideration of enterprises as independent systems with their own culture and knowledge, aimed at the implementation of constantly updated (innovative) technologies. The competition took on even tougher forms. The use of information technology eliminates the need for physical proximity of both producers and consumers, as a result of which markets become global. As a result of recent events under the influence of COVID-19 and the war, Ukraine's economy is suffering from destruction. The work proposes the creation of regional zones of innovative development as a way to revive the economy of Ukraine.