General information about the school

The core of the scientific and educational school, which was established at the Faculty of International Economics and Management of KNEU in the mid-1990s, is made up of scientists known in Ukraine and abroad: Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine Poruchnyk A. M., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine Pakhomov Yu.M., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chuzhykov V.I., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Antoniuk L. L., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Laureate of the Prize of the President of Ukraine Shvydanenko O. A., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Laureate of the Prize of the President of Ukraine Stoliarchuk Ya. M., Doctor of Economics, Professor Shevchuk V. O.

The total number of specialists conducting scientific research on the school`s topics unites more than 50 scientists from KNEU and other scientific institutions and higher educational institutions of Ukraine.

During the school`s existence, 15 doctors and 60 candidates of economic sciences have been trained in the specialty «World economy and international economic relations», 75 collective and individual monographs, 56 textbooks and teaching aids on international economics, world economy, economics of foreign countries, international economic analysis, international competitiveness management, global competitive leadership, etc. have been published.

The main components of the creative contribution of the representatives of the Scientific and Educational School of Global Competitive Leadership to the domestic scientific and educational potential are as follows:

1. A new conceptual approach to determining the essence and structuring of Ukraine's national interests through the prism of its economic self-sufficiency in the global space has been formulated and innovative mechanisms for their implementation in the domestic and international spheres have been identified. The key idea is a systematic justification of the need for Ukraine to achieve economic self-sufficiency based on the maximum mobilization of national economic potential and the effective use of globalization factors of the country's economic development. The realism of this idea is confirmed by the assessment of the modern economic potential of Ukraine, carried out for the first time in domestic science, based on the system of sustainable development indicators according to the World Bank methodology, and a forecast of its dynamics in the medium (until 2016) and long-term (until 2050) periods for the leading sectors of the Ukrainian economy (industry, agriculture, construction, transport and communications, trade, innovation sphere).

2. Specific mechanisms for Ukraine to implement national interests based on an innovative development model are substantiated, the main of which are ensuring balanced interaction of scientific, technical, technological and production potentials, activating the innovative activity of the corporate sector, selectivity of state support for the innovative activity of business entities, creation of departmental and regional innovation funds, research centers with mixed (public-private) financing, tax incentives for the development of innovative activity of enterprises, liberalization of mergers and acquisitions of venture enterprises, clustering of cooperation of business entities, establishment of an extensive system of partnership relations between science and business, etc.

3. A methodological basis for the study of the human resource of economic development is developed, namely: a modern interpretation of the human factor of social production is presented and the human dimension of post-industrialism is assessed from by focusing research interest on issues of human resource development of nations in the conditions of formation of the global economy of the 21st century, ways and mechanisms of its functioning in the national socio-economic space and in the international sphere. The current state of the human resource of the Ukrainian nation is assessed and specific mechanisms for improving its qualitative conditions are substantiated in the context of the formation of motives, incentives and value orientations for the realization of human interests and promoting the comprehensive development of human capital of Ukraine as the intellectual basis for the development of society.

4. Based on a systematic analysis of all forms of transnationalization of the Ukrainian economy according to the European vector of implementation of its international economic strategy, a comprehensive assessment of the current integration readiness of our country according to political, legal, economic and socio-cultural criteria has been carried out. Based on the results obtained, it is proven that Ukraine's entry into regional integration associations is currently a premature and strategically unmotivated act.

5. Theoretical and methodological principles for studying the international competitiveness of countries in the global competitive environment have been developed, in particular, a factor analysis of the effectiveness of country models for achieving high competitive positions by states in international markets, an assessment of the globalization dimensions of the innovative, regional and social competitiveness of national economies, as well as the structuring of mechanisms for ensuring the international competitiveness of countries, maintaining sustainable competitive advantages and stimulating the innovative activity of business entities. In addition, based on an assessment of the modern scientific and technical potential of Ukraine and the innovative capacity of the domestic economy, strategic directions in the development of the state's international economic activity in the context of achieving a high competitive status in the world economy have been substantiated.The methodology of the World Economic Forum's competitiveness of countries has been improved through the use of new methods of analysis - cluster and correlation based on a set of criteria (competitiveness growth index and its sub-indexes: technological; social institutions, macroeconomic environment and microeconomic index and its components - company strategies; quality of the national business environment) in order to comprehensively assess the competitive status of countries. The current disposition of the international competitiveness of countries in world markets has been determined and 8 clusters have been obtained for the first time. Correlation-regression models have been developed to predict future levels of competitiveness of countries. With the help of correlation analysis, the main factors of the formation of a high competitive state of a country have been identified: adequate institutional structure, development of information technologies, operational commercialization of innovations, high level of key competencies. It has been proven that at the current stage of competitiveness, the national economy should be based, first of all, on the innovative type of its development, characterized by the creation of new products and services based on national innovation systems.

6. It is substantiated that the current trends in the development of the globalized economy and the peculiarities of the functioning of economic entities on the world market in the conditions of global competition can be characterized by the interaction of global supply. The essence of the new phenomenon - global competition is precisely reproduction and expansion in its pure form, which affect the development of humanity through the appropriate model, focused on the scale of the released liquid resources, which is generally characterized by a supra-economic character. New global features of competition give grounds to consider it a historical phenomenon of the current stage of development of the world economy, which reflects the process of struggle in various forms of opposition of entities of the global economic system for possession of limited economic resources and the most favorable conditions for the production and sale of products (services) under conditions of sustainable and safe development at the corporate, state, regional and inter-civilizational levels.

7. A new conceptual approach to the study of global economic development through asymmetry, as its general form, is formulated; disclosure of the economic nature of asymmetry; definition and assessment of the forms of its manifestation, as well as substantiation of the ways and directions of development of global management institutions as a key condition for ensuring world economic balance. The fundamental trend of global economic development is theoretically substantiated - the formation of new world centers of economic competition (China, India, Brazil, countries of the Middle East region) as a form of manifestation of financial, production, technological and social asymmetry. The social polarization of countries under globalization conditions is assessed using quantitative and qualitative parameters and the forms of its manifestation are specified. On this basis, the directions of development of global management institutions to ensure world economic balance are substantiated. The author's methodology for assessing the potential of global competitiveness according to its types: production and consumer is formulated. The assessment of the potential of global competitiveness of 43 leading countries of the world was carried out and on this basis the author's ranking of national economies was obtained, taking as a criterion for their differentiation the ratio of production and consumption competitiveness. The impact of modern globalization trends on the need to improve the paradigmatic construction of global competitiveness was diagnosed, which made it possible to prove the positive impact of the development of market-wide planetary globalization on increasing the level of competitiveness of national economic and other subjects of the world economy in the case of a single-vector direction and interaction of the entire set of civilizational (Western and non-Western) factors. The directions of improving the modern paradigmatic construction of global competitiveness were determined.

8. For the first time in Ukraine, within the framework of the «State Strategy for Regional Development», conceptual foundations for its harmonization with the relevant EU strategy have been developed. A model of gradual adaptation of Ukraine's regional policy to the complementary polystructural regional model of the European Union has been proposed, which takes into account the national and regional interests of our state within the common European economic space to the maximum extent. Specific directions for overcoming regional disparities have been identified, the main ones of which are: the formation of a system of Euroregions along the western and eastern borders, support for regional investment projects important for Ukraine on a complementary financing basis, attraction of EU structural funds to the formation of consolidated budgets of Euroregions and the construction of transport corridors, implementation of a system of «regional contracts»with local governments.