Building back a better innovation ecosystem in Ukraine
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is aggravating the long-term trend of R&D under-investment
in Ukraine, as well as accelerating brain drain. In the reconstruction period, science,
technology and innovation have the potential to contribute to the societal transformation
of Ukraine, feeding into an innovation-centric industrial strategy, which also includes
developing linkages with selected parts of the academic sector, which should themselves
be strengthened to serve that purpose. It can also significantly contribute to Ukraine’s
green transition, through stimulation of grassroots entrepreneurship in co-creation
with academia, in particular on the basis of Ukraine’s small but excellent scientific
production in the areas of environmental and planetary sciences. The brief provides
specific policy recommendations which can help policy makers address the binding constraints
towards the attainment of these goals.
Published on November 04, 2022
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