On November 13-14, 2014, the XXVI Kyiv Symposium on Science studies and the history of science “Science, Technology and Innovation as the Most Important Factors of National Security in the Conditions of the Formation of New Sovereign States” was held in Kyiv.
The participants of the symposium state that a serious threat to the national security of Ukraine is the underestimation of the importance of science for strengthening the country's defense capabilities, for ensuring innovative development of the economy and the moral health of society, and the separation of government officials responsible for the formation and implementation of the state's economic policy from advanced domestic and foreign science.
This has led to the adoption of a number of ill-considered, or even simply incompetent, decisions, the lack of a consistent scientific, technological and innovation policy, the progressive degradation of scientific and technological potential. The importance of the development of the rocket and space industry for ensuring national security and accelerating innovation processes in the country's economy is underestimated. A serious threat to national security has become the progressive bureaucratization of public administration in the socio-economic sphere, which not only worsens the effectiveness of legislation and practical measures of the executive branch, but also undermines public trust in the government, poisons public consciousness.
The symposium was attended by more than 150 participants
K.s.1 Participated 53, from them with reports 18
K.s.2. Participated 30, from the bottom with reports 17
The plenary session of the symposium was opened by the Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Anton Grigorovich Naumovets, who announced the congratulations to the participants of the President of the NAS of Ukraine B.E. Paton.
The meeting participants were welcomed by the People's Deputy of Ukraine, Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Science and Education Liliya Grinevich
The plenary session heard reports from: Director of the G.M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science of the NAS of Ukraine Boris Malitsky “Science, technology, innovation and national security: theoretical and applied aspects”; Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Acting Scientific Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Vyacheslav Bogdanov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Head of Department of the Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine Oleg Grachev “Fundamental science and national security”; Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician of the Secretary of the Department of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the M.V. Ptukha Institute of Demography and Social Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ella Libanova “Social aspects of scientific and technological security”; Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the Institute of Magnetism of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Viktor Bar’yakhtar’s “Does Ukraine need nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons”, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Maksima Strikha “Ukrainian science as a factor of national security”; Candidate of Technical Sciences, Deputy General Designer of the State Design Bureau “Pivdenne” for Scientific Work Oleksandra Kashanova, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Director of the Dnipropetrovsk Branch of the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine Anatoliy Shevtsova «Potential of the rocket and space industry and national security of Ukraine"; Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of the G.M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Igor Bulkina “Features of Financing the Scientific and Technological Development of the Military-Industrial Complex of Ukraine”; Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Legal Support for the Development of Science and Technology of the Research Institute of Intellectual Property of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Gennady Androschuk “Intellectual Property in Knowledge-Intensive Industries and the Defense Sector in the Context of National Security”; junior research associate of the Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine Anton Koretsky “On the possibilities of applying modern approaches to forecasting the development of technologies in the military-industrial sector”; Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor, Director of the International Scientific and Educational Center for Information Technologies and Systems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Volodymyr Hrytsenko, “Information Space: Intellectual Technologies and National Security”; Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of the State Institution "Institute of Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development of the NAS of Ukraine" Anatoliy Stepanenko “Environmentally-oriented strategies in the system of ensuring environmental safety”; Doctor of Economics, Chief Researcher of the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine Yuria Kharazishvili «Methodological approaches to assessing the level of economic security of the country"; Doctor of Economics, Professor, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine Vyacheslav Solovyov “Toward Substantiating the Logic of the Influence of Science and Innovation on the Mechanisms of National and Collective Security”; Doctor of Economics, Professor, Leading Researcher of the Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine Oleg Mekha “Scientific content of the national security system: analysis of regulatory and legal frameworks” Doctor of Economics, Head of the Department of the Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine Oleksandr Popovich “Bureaucratization of public administration as a real threat to national security”; Candidate of Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow of the G.M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Igor Makarenko “Problems of national security: innovation context. Modern realities” Doctor of Science, Leading Researcher of the Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine Alla Lytvynko “Historical Experience of Domestic Science and Technology in Ensuring National Security”
At the round table 1 «Threats to national security caused by the state of scientific and technological potential"
Roundtable moderators:
Vyacheslav Solovyov, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the G.M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science of the NAS of Ukraine
Volodymyr Hrytsenko, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor, Director of the International Scientific and Educational Center for Information Technologies and Systems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
Viktor Shovkalyuk, Director of the Department of Innovation and Technology Transfer of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
Secretary of the Round Table
Olena Kazmina, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Research Fellow of the Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine
Participated 53, from them with reports 16
Foreword:
Viktor Shovkalyuk, Director of the Department of Innovation and Technology Transfer of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
Vyacheslav Solovyov, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the G.M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science of the NAS of Ukraine
Roundtable presentations:
Kvasha Tetyana Konstantinovna, Candidate of Economic Sciences, UkrINTEI «Scientific and technological security as a main element of economic security: assessment methodology and analysis of the state”; Makarenko Igor Petrovich, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Doctor of Sciences candidate at the Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine «Cash flows in an innovative environment.» Morozov Oleksandr Fedorovych, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, NTUU "KPI" «Formation innovation susceptibility of the enterprise"; Yegorov Igor Yuriyovich, Doctor of Economics, Senior Researcher of the State Institution "Institute of Economics and Forecasting" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "Using the indicators of the European Innovation Scoreboard to assess the level of innovation activity in Ukraine Denisyuk Volodymyr Antonovich, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher, Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine «Commercialization of scientific developments as a factor in increasing economic and scientific and technological security”; Mazur Oleksandr Anatoliyovych, Candidate of Economic Sciences, IEZ named after E.O. Paton NAS of Ukraine «Scientific and technical potential of the E.O. Paton Institute of Science and National Security”; Zhelibo Evgen Petrovych, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor, National University of the State Tax Service of Ukraine «Problems of commercialization of innovations in Ukraine and ways to solve them"; Guliev Arif Jamil ogli, D.Sc., Assoc. Prof., National Aviation University «Terrorism as a threat to national security: sources of the problem"; Senchenko Vasyl Vasylovych, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher, Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine «On the training of managerial personnel using modern information and communication technologies to ensure the innovative development of Ukraine"; Moiseenko Yuriy Valentinovich, Applicant, Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine
“Issues of Intellectual Property Protection”; Stepashko Volodymyr Semenovich, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, International Scientific and Educational Center for Information Technologies and Systems of the National Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine "Technologies for quantitative assessment and forecasting of the state's economic security"; Mekh Oleh Andriyovych Oleg Andriyovich, Doctor of Economics, Professor, G.M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science of the NAS of Ukraine «Social factors of national security»; Gusev Vyacheslav Oleksandrovych, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Senior Researcher, Institute of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Problems of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine "Institutional Support of Ukraine's National Security in the Sphere of Innovation Activity"; Klysak Gennady Oleksandrovych, Wheel Systems Plant “KONSIMA”, Dnipropetrovsk “Food Security and the “Silent War” in the Fields of Ukraine”;
Popovych Oleksandr Serhiiovych, Doctor of Economics, G.M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science, NAS of Ukraine «National innovation system and proposals for the recommendations of the symposium”; Baranovskaya Nataliya Petrovna, Doctor of Science, Senior Researcher, Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine «The state of domestic science and its role in minimizing the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.
At the round table 2 «Historical experience and modern opportunities for using the potential of the rocket and space industry in solving national security problems"
Roundtable moderators:
Yuri Khramov, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, Head of the Department of History of Science and Technology of the G. M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science of the NAS of Ukraine
Viktor Tkachenko, Assistant to the General Designer - General Director - Head of the Independent Department of Scientific and Technical Information and Patent and Licensing Research of the State Enterprise "KB "Yuzhnoye"
Iryna Dyachuk, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Director of the S.P. Korolev Museum of Cosmonautics
Participated 30, from the bottom with reports 18
Khramov Yuri Oleksiyovich, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Prof., Central Institute of Industrial and Economic Research named after G. M. Dobrov NAS of Ukraine “Introduction. Structure of National Security”; Oleinik Ivan Ivanovich, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Colonel General, Advisor to the General Director of State Enterprise "KB "Pivdenne" “Armament and Military Equipment in Ensuring National Security”; Kuznetsov Eduard Ivanovich, Deputy Director General of the National Academy of Sciences “Application of ground-based space assets in the interests of national security Dyachuk Iryna Dmytrivna, Candidate of Sciences, Director of the S.P. Dobrov Museum of Cosmonautics Korolev "Space activity as a component of global security" Fedorov Oleg Pavlovich, Director of the Institute of Space Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “Fundamental space research in the context of national security requirements”; Tkachenko Viktor Dmytrovych, Assistant to the General Designer - General Director - Head of the Independent Department of Scientific and Technical Information and Patent and Licensing Research of the State Enterprise "KB "Yuzhnoye" “Rocket and Space Technology of Ukraine within the USSR (1951 – 1991)” Kashanov Oleksandr Erikovich, Candidate of Technical Sciences, State Enterprise "KB "Pivdenne" “Rocket and Space Technology of Ukraine (since 1992)” Mitrakhov Mykola Oleksandrovych, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau “V. G. Sergeyev Scientific and Technical School” Zvonkova Galina Leonidivna, Candidate of Historical Sciences, G. M. Dobrov Central Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “Scientific schools in the history of science: characteristic features and essence”; Velbytsky Igor Vyacheslavovich, Doctor of Engineering, Institute of Cybernetics “Cooperation between the Glushkov and Sergiyev scientific schools”; Gorelova Svitlana Oleksandrivna, National Technical University "KhPI" “Activities of the Kharkiv enterprises “Kommunar” and “KHARTRON” in the production of control systems for rocket and space technology”; Kornienko Oleksandr Mykolayovych, doctor of medicine, IEZ named after E.O. Paton “Development of welding and related technologies, determined by the needs of the rocket and space industry”; Sklyar Volodymyr Mykolayovych, Doctor of Science, National Technical University "KhPI" “Experience of personnel provision by the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute of the military-industrial complex (50s – 80s of the 20th century)”; Larin Andriy Oleksiyovych, Candidate of Technical Sciences, National Technical University "KhPI"“Training of Specialists for the Rocket and Space Industry at the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”. Presentation of the collective monograph “Dynamics flight and management: 50 years in KhPI»»; Grabar Ivan Hryhorovych, Doctor of Technical Sciences, National Agroecological University “Education and Science in the Light of Modern Requirements for Ensuring National Security; Timchenko Oleksandr Yurievich, SE “KB “Pivdenne”; VasylenkoBoris Emilianovych chairman of the Public Council of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, chief engineer of the Kiev Radio Plant in 1976-1996;
Khramov Yuriy Oleksiyovych, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, G. M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science of the NAS of Ukraine Ukraine “Prospectus of the collective monograph “History of Rocket and Space Technology of Ukraine”. Discussion.”
The symposium participants accepted the recommendations that will be sent to the science management bodies and to the symposium participants.
Selected speeches in the form of articles will be published in the journal "Science and Science of Science".
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XXVI Kyiv Symposium on Science Studies and History of Science on the topic: “Science, Technology and Innovation as the Most Important Factors of National Security in the Conditions of the Formation of New Sovereign States”
The symposium participants state that a serious threat to the national security of Ukraine is the underestimation of the importance of science for strengthening the country's defense capability, for ensuring innovative development of the economy and the moral health of society, the misunderstanding that the scientific and technological sphere serves as a source of producing intellectual resources for the development and support of all components of national security: economic prosperity, socio-political stability, defense capability, and the resulting separation of government officials responsible for the formation and implementation of the state's economic policy from advanced domestic and foreign science. This has led to the adoption of a number of ill-considered, or even simply incompetent, decisions, the absence of a consistent scientific and technological and innovation policy, and the progressive degradation of scientific and technological potential. The importance of the development of the rocket and space industry for ensuring national security and accelerating innovation processes in the country's economy is underestimated. A serious threat to national security has become the progressive bureaucratization of state administration in the socio-economic sphere, which not only worsens the effectiveness of legislation and practical measures of the executive branch, but also undermines public trust in the authorities, poisons public consciousness.
Having discussed these other problems, scientists, what took part in the symposium, recommend:
- Address Ukrainian scientists with an appeal to intensify research into problems directly related to strengthening national security and defense capabilities of the country, actively use media, as well as Internet platforms (social and professional networks) to explain to the general public the importance of domestic science for the stable growth of the country's economy and increasing the level of national security. To this end, use more widely the results of research on the history of science and its impact on the technological development of industry and the increase in social wealth.
- Organize coordinated and regular studies of national security problems. Their results should be concentrated in an annual government report dedicated to assessing the state of national security and substantiating the strategy for its strengthening, including:
– clear and specific formulations of Ukraine’s foreign policy goals, vital for ensuring the security of the country, society and people;
– directions of foreign policy, the content of international and interstate obligations of Ukraine and the level of economic, military, diplomatic and other capabilities of the state, which should ensure prevention and adequate response to aggression against the Ukrainian state, fully and effectively implement the national security strategy;
– justification of specific short-, medium- and long-term measures for the use of political, economic, scientific and technical, military and other types of potential of the country to protect national interests and achieve goals vital for ensuring the national security of Ukraine;
– problem-oriented and general assessment of the presence in Ukraine of adequate opportunities for implementation of the national security strategy, including economic, scientific-technological, socio-political and military;
– current and future information necessary to inform the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the President of the country and the people of Ukraine about the state, problems and strategy of national security, as well as the necessary efforts for its implementation. In addition to the secret part, the document must have an open part accessible to the entire population, which is important for the active inclusion of every citizen of the country in the discussion of the problems of implementing the national security strategy.
- Take decisive measures to deepen the coordination of scientific research aimed at guaranteeing national security, ensure their flexible strategic planning, which would allow taking into account existing and potential threats. To this end, establish a state agency for scientific support of national security, and also entrust it with monitoring existing and emerging new threats to the country's security and the effectiveness of actions aimed at eliminating them. To resume the activities of the Interdepartmental Commission on Scientific and Technological Security under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. To replenish its staff with highly qualified specialists, to clarify its functions as a consultative and advisory body, to entrust it with the formation of orders for scientific research and development related to national security and increasing the country's defense capability.
- To introduce a system of operational scientific analysis of external and internal threats to the national security of Ukraine, to reconstruct, for this purpose, the situational centre of the National Security and Defence Council, providing in its structure not only means of operational monitoring of existing threats and the state of scientific and technological support for national security, but also the capabilities of automated data processing, mathematical modelling of various scenarios of the development of the situation and state policy strategies, software, as well as for the large-scale involvement of a large number of experts using modern information and communication technologies. The Dobrov Centre for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine to initiate the organisation of a comprehensive research group and the implementation of a project aimed at developing a methodology, methodological support and scientific support for the process of implementing this project.
- In order to bring the scientific developments of the institutes of the NAS of Ukraine as close as possible to the modern requirements of industry and the entire economy of the country regarding ensuring national security, to address the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine with a proposal to hold extended meetings in the departments of mechanics, computer science, physical and technical problems of materials science, physical and technical problems of energy, nuclear physics and energy, economics, etc. with the participation of representatives of the State Design Bureau "Pivdenne" to discuss the problems of scientific and technological ensuring the national security of the state.
- To draw the attention of the country's leadership to the need for a radical revision of the policy of the Ukrainian state regarding the development of science and technology, the implementation of real measures aimed at the structural restructuring of the economy, the introduction of modern methods of public administration, as well as the use of the capabilities of domestic science to substantiate and adjust state policy, in particular, to eliminate and counteract threats to national security and the country's defense capability.
- End the neglect of socio-political and socio-cultural factors of the country's national security, which is directly related to sustainable (eco-sustainable) development of production, economic and social stability.
- Resolutely abandon the course consistently pursued by the economic bloc of previous governments to replace the program-targeted approach in state management of scientific and technological development. Launch a number of large-scale scientific and technological and innovation programs aimed at modernizing the country's defense capabilities and accelerating the technological renewal of production.
- Clearly define the prospects for reaching the level of European standards for increasing the science-intensiveness of the economy, for which, starting from 2015, plan an annual increase in the volume of expenditures for scientific research and development from the state budget at a rate of not less than 25% per year. This will allow by 2020 to reach the level of 1.5% of GDP from the state budget, and subject to stimulation of investment in science - the level of financing of scientific research and development from all sources in the amount of 3% of GDP, as provided for the EU. Provide state support for the participation of domestic scientists in scientific and technological programs of the European Union, as well as their receipt of grants from international funds and organizations for the implementation of research and development aimed at increasing the level of national security of Ukraine.
Urgently implement measures to increase the effectiveness of domestic science and implement its results in production. In this case, the primary importance should be given to solving the problems of forming a favorable legal and regulatory environment, comprehensive development of scientific, technological and innovative infrastructure, and implementation of effective cooperation mechanisms along the entire chain of “scientific developments - production”
- Take measures to radically deepen transparency in the activities of state administration bodies at all levels as an effective means of combating bureaucratization and corruption, make wider use of the opportunities of public councils under central authorities, as well as the interactive capabilities of modern information and communication technologies for this purpose. Organize mandatory training for civil servants of central and local executive authorities to master the basics of innovation culture and innovation management.
- Develop and begin consistent and targeted implementation of the state program for the formation of a science-intensive national security system of Ukraine, providing for the resolution of problems of material and technical support of relevant research, their legislative and tax incentives. Create and legislatively consolidate a mechanism for the unhindered transfer of dual-use technologies in order to use them as fully as possible to strengthen the country's defense capabilities and solve socio-economic problems.
- Considering the presence of a powerful scientific and technological potential of Ukraine in the field of rocket and space technology, its real capabilities in strengthening the country's defense capabilities and exerting a real influence on technological renewal and innovative development of many branches of production and the economy as a whole, consider ensuring its priority support by the state as one of the key directions for increasing the level of national security. To this end, at the legislative level, create a regime of maximum assistance for research, design and manufacturing enterprises operating in this field, organize interdepartmental coordination of such activities, and significantly strengthen state support for space programmes.
- The symposium participants believe that in order to bring the economy of Ukraine to a level that guarantees an appropriate level of national security, it is necessary to:
– to ensure the annual growth of the country’s real GDP of at least 7%;
– to reach a production level of 12.6 thousand US dollars per capita (which corresponds to an increase in GDP by approximately 2.7 times);
– creation of conditions that will allow reducing the level of interest rates on crediting production to 5% per annum;
– creation of economically safe conditions for the transition to a floating exchange rate, ensuring the establishment of such a level at which the balance of payments will be positive or zero.
- Historians of science should pay special attention to studying the history of the creation of rocket and space science and technology in Ukraine, the unique scientific and technical schools of leading scientists-designers who played a key role in strengthening the country's defense capability. Pay more attention to popularizing the history of domestic science.
- To draw the attention of media workers to the extreme importance for the national security of the state of strengthening their influence on the formation in the public consciousness of an adequate understanding of the importance of science and innovative economic development based on its achievements for raising the standard of living, establishing Ukraine as a modern state and ensuring its very existence as an independent and sovereign state in the modern world.
- Urgently publish on the website of the G.M. Dobrov Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science presentations of the reports of the symposium participants, and within the next two weeks, the texts of these reports, prepare briefing notes to the government and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the most pressing problems that were discussed at the symposium. Prepare and publish articles in the journals "Science and Innovation", "Science and Science of Science", "Problems of Science" based on the materials of the reports and speeches of the symposium participants.
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