As of 1 January 2020, the total number of employees of the Institute is 62 people, of which the number of scientific workers is 52 people, including 10 doctors and 24 candidates of sciences.
The Institute operates postgraduate and doctoral studies in the specialties 051 "Economics", 031 "History and Archaeology", a specialized academic council with the right to accept for consideration and conduct defenses of dissertations for the degree of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences in the specialty 07.00.07 - History of Science and Technology.
In 2016, the Institute received a license for the right to conduct educational activities at the third (scientific and educational) level of higher education for the training of Doctors of Philosophy in the field of knowledge 03 - Humanities, specialty 032 - History and Archaeology; in the field of knowledge 05 - Social and Behavioral Sciences, specialty 051 - Economics, - Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 5 September 2016 No. 1073.
The Institute’s Specialised Academic Council for speciality 07.00.07, History of Science and Technology, has operated since 1991. By Order No. 358 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, dated 15 March 2019, Specialised Academic Council D 26.189.02 was authorised, until 31 December 2020, to accept dissertations and conduct defences for the degrees of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences in History in speciality 07.00.07, History of Science and Technology.
Journal of the Institute "Science and Science of Science", published since 1993, according to the registration certificate KV No. 21848-11748 PR dated January 22, 2016, the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated July 13, 2015 No. 747 is included in the list of scientific professional publications (economics) and the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated July 2, 2020 No. 886 is included in the list of scientific professional publications (economics), category "B", in which the results of dissertations for the degrees of doctor and Candidate of Economic Sciences. The journal is presented in 4 international and domestic scientometric databases, repositories and search engines: Google Scholar, ERIH PLUS, Bibliometrics of Ukrainian Science, Ukrainian Science.
The editorial board of the journal is represented by both domestic experts (academicians, professors, doctors, candidates of sciences) and experts from Azerbaijan, Great Britain, China, Moldova, Hungary. Currently, 108 issues of the journal have been published. Four issues of the journal are published each year.
The Institute is a legal entity, has an independent balance sheet, a round seal with its name, other necessary seals and stamps, a letterhead, accounts in national currency, opened in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine, the logo maintains records and accounting in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine.
The Institute cooperates with the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Education, Science and Innovations, with separate divisions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, ministries, departments, scientific institutions, enterprises, organizations of Ukraine
The Dobrov Institute conducts theoretical and applied research and development in the field of management and organization of science, history of science and technology, and innovation, conducted by scientific institutions and higher educational institutions of Ukraine, provides them with scientific and methodological assistance in training scientific personnel in the profile of the Institute.
The Center for Innovation and Technological Development of the Institute is a member of the public organization Public Innovation Network of Ukraine (SIMU), which participates in the expert assessment of legislative and regulatory acts of Ukraine, coordinates its activities with the most active public communities interested in the development of science and innovation. The Head of the Center – Solovyov V.P. is one of the coordinators of SIMU.
Public activity of the Institute's scientists in the governing bodies of public scientific associations:
B.A. Malitsky – member of the Presidium of the Federation of Scientists;
Yu. O. Khramov – head of the Ukrainian Society of Historians of Science;
V.I. Onoprenko – President of the National Committee of Historians of Science;
V.P. Solovyov – Member of the Board of the Kyiv Branch of the Union of Scientific and Engineering Associations of Ukraine, Member of the Board of Directors of the Kyiv City State Administration;
O.S. Popovych - member of the Presidium and member of the Council of the Union of Scientific and Engineering Associations of Ukraine;
I.P. Makarenko is the head of the independent public organization “Institute of Evolutionary Economics, which unites scientists of Ukraine who are engaged in research on innovation, evolutionary economics, macroeconomics, institutionalism and the institutional structure of society, mechanisms of socio-economic cycles, extremology, as well as forecasting systemic crises. The main activity of the Institute is the study of innovation as a systemic process”;
V.P. Ribachuk – Member of the International Society of Science Measurement and Infometry (ISSI);
M.D. Stankova – member of the European International Society for the History of Science;
A.S. Lytvynko is a member of the International Committee for the History of Technology and the European Society for the History of Science;
L.P. Kavunenko – member of the European Association for Evolutionary Economics (EAERE), member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST);
N.B. Isakova is a member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and is the Ukrainian Representative of the Advisory Board of the Amway Global Entrepreneurship Report.
The Institute cooperates with:
- State Institution "National Antarctic Science Center" of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine within the framework of the implementation of scientific and technical projects under the State Targeted Scientific and Technical Program for Research in Antarctica for 2011–2020 (V.P. Rybachuk), as well as with the Department of Bibliometrics and Scientometrics of the National Library named after V.I. Vernadsky.
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv for organizing internships for university teachers at the Institute and participation of Institute scientists in the work of final examination boards;
- Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP) on solving problems of scientific and investment support for the development of Ukraine;
- Agro-industrial Union of Ukraine for solving problems of innovative development of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine;
- Public organization NDI Foundation (National Development and Innovation Foundation);
- scientists of the Institute participated in the expert assessment of the world ranking of higher education institutions Times Higher Education at the invitation of the Surveys Elsevier service.
The Institute is the organizer of domestic and international events, namely:
1). Annual International Scientific and Practical Conference "Problems and prospects of innovative development of the economy in the context of Ukraine's integration into the European science and innovation space"Problems and prospects of innovative development of the economy in the context of Ukraine's integration into the European scientific and innovative space" on the basis of Odessa National Polytechnic University (Odessa). The purpose of the conference is to involve business in the development of science, exchange international experience in this area, which, in turn, contributes to solving strategic issues regarding how to actively introduce innovations in the modern economy, how a scientific institution can help in this. At the same time, how to mobilize modern business, particularly small ones, to this process in the matter of financing science, since these positions, "business - science", are still quite distant in Ukrainian realities. The conference is annually attended by representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, academic structures, higher educational institutions, public organizations and entrepreneurs. Representatives from different countries take part in the conferences: Ukraine, China, Germany, Georgia, France, Denmark, etc. Conference participants have the opportunity to watch the online broadcast of the event and ask questions online on the website of the Dobrov Institute and the Institute of Evolutionary Economics. It is precisely modern means of online broadcasting that make it possible to expand the number of conference participants, including foreign ones.
Modern online broadcasting tools make it possible to hold more events within the conference. Thus, in 2019, the conference held round table “Features of the formation of regional innovation systems in Ukraine in modern conditions” (in Skype conference mode) with representatives of the Private Higher Educational Institution "Ukrainian Humanitarian Institute". The financial partners of the conference are: Engineering and Consulting Company "Innovation. Achievements. Group Leadership", Agency for Non-Standard Business Solutions "S&KU", Public Union "Innovation Center "Stairs to the Future", Public Joint-Stock Company "Koblevo", Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko, etc. Based on the results of the conference, a peer-reviewed collection of materials is published annually, in which reports are published in Ukrainian, Russian and English. The collection is a scientific publication and recommended for publication by the Academic Council of the Institute. The conference always ends with a seminar, during which the results and ways of implementing the adopted recommendations are discussed.
2). The Institute has been organizing international symposia since 2001 with financial support from UNESCO. The Institute provides methodological and organizational support for these events. Scientists and specialists from various countries of Europe and Asia (China, Moldova, Poland, France and Ukraine, etc.) participate in the symposium. Based on the results of the symposium, a peer-reviewed collection of materials is published, in which reports are published in Ukrainian, Russian and English.
3). The Institute holds an annual International Conference on Science studies and the history of science (Dobrov Readings), which is dedicated to honoring the memory of the famous Ukrainian scientist in the field of science studies and the history of science, Gennady Mykhailovych Dobrov (1929-1989), corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Doctor of Economics, Professor, founder of the Kyiv Scientific School of Science in Ukraine, initiator of the creation and first head of the Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Potential and History of Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
4). For 30 years, the Institute has been holding the annual All-Ukrainian scientific conference of young historians of science, technology and education and specialists “Science as a Phenomenon of National Culture” within the framework of the International Youth Symposium on the History of Science and Technology “Priorities of Ukrainian Science” in cooperation with the Ukrainian Society of Historians of Science. The conference partners are the Academy of Sciences of Higher School of Ukraine, the Council of Young Scientists of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Center for Research on the History of Science and Technology named after O. P. Borodin of the State University of Infrastructure and Technologies, the Center for Monument Studies of the NAS of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, State Polytechnic Museum, O.V. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Memorial Museum of O.V. Palladin, National Scientific and Natural History Museum, JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia". At the conferences, priority results, the history of scientific and scientific-technical, Memorial Museum of O.V. Palladin, National Museum of Natural Sciences, JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia”. The conferences consider priority results, the history of scientific and scientific and technical teams, institutions and scientists of Ukraine and the world in the field of natural, technical and social sciences as a socio-cultural phenomenon; historical biographical studies of scientists and organizers of science; ideological significance of the history of science and technology, ways to increase the prestige of intellectual work and popularization of science; methodology of the history of science and technology; scientific and scientific and technical schools in Ukraine and the world; advanced experience of rationalizers and inventors of Ukraine; scientific approach to preservation of historical heritage. The conference is annually attended by more than 100 young and experienced historians of science, technology and education, representing Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odessa, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipro, Cherkasy, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Kropyvnytskyi, Zhytomyr, as well as foreign scientific and educational institutions (Museum of Cosmonautics, Zhytomyr; Jan Dlugosz University, Częstochowa (Poland); University of Lorraine, Nancy (France); Transylvania University, Brasov (Romania).
One of the last conferences in 2019 was attended by: 102 young historians of science, technology and education, as well as experienced specialists from Ukraine, Romania, Poland and France - from 17 cities, namely: Kyiv (72), Kharkiv (11), Odesa (2), Dnipro (2), Chernihiv (1), Cherkasy (3), Kropyvnytskyi (2), Zhytomyr (1), Mykolaiv (1), Kryvyi Rih (1), Nemishayev (1), Lutsk (1), Ternopil (1), Terebovlia (1), Czestochowa (Poland) (1), Brasov (Romania) (1), Nancy (France) (1). Among the participants were 16 doctors and 29 candidates of sciences, who submitted 83 reports and represented 44 institutions, including 9 institutions of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2 museums, 3 libraries, 22 universities.
5). Since 2003, the Institute has been a co-organizer of the International Youth Scientific and Practical Conferences “History of the Development of Science, Technology and Education”, which are held jointly with NTUU “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, and together with the above-mentioned scientific conferences of young historians of science, technology and education, they constitute the Youth Symposium on the History of Science and Technology. In 2019, the plenary part of the conference ended with the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the outstanding physicist Marian Smoluchowski. In general, the International Youth Symposium on the History of Science and Technology “Priorities of Ukrainian Science” has become a traditional meeting place for young researchers and professional historians of science and technology of Ukraine. The materials of each of the conferences of the Youth Symposium have been published in a separate collection. The tradition of the symposium is to conduct a professional excursion for participants who in different years visited the Museum of Medicine, the Museum of Water, the Astronomical Observatory of Kyiv University, the National Herbarium of Ukraine, the National Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine, the Memorial Museum of Chemist O.V. Palladin, the Museum of the History of Ukrainian Railways.
6.) The Institute is a co-organizer of the annual All-Ukrainian scientific conference "Current issues of the history of science and technology", which is held not only in Kyiv, but also in various large and small cities of our country: in Kramatorsk, Lviv, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Ochakiv, Korosten and a number of other cities. The purpose of the conference is to highlight by experienced and young scientists from different regions of Ukraine issues related to current problems of the history of science and technology, the development of scientific and technical ideas, personalities of outstanding scientists and engineers of the past, museology, monument studies, cultural heritage. Based on the results, a collection of conference materials is published, which contributes to the popularization of domestic science and technology and its history.
7). The All-Ukrainian Round Table "Transformation of Languages and Communications in a Networked Society" was held as part of the II International Symposium "Humanitarian Discourse of a Multicultural World: Science, Education, Communication" at the Department of Philosophy of the National Aviation University (March 26, 2019, Kyiv) together with: the Department of Philosophy of the National Aviation University, the Department of Philosophy, Bioethics and History of Medicine of the O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University and the Department of Philosophy and Political Science of the Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University. The participants of the round table covered interesting and relevant topics from various aspects of the problem of the transformation of the language of communications in a networked society. Speech and communicative changes in the fields of science, pedagogy, the media sphere, PR and marketing were considered; transformation of communication in social networks of various social communities; transformation of the language norm; features of interpersonal communication in the context of information technologies and personal language competence; problems of intercultural dialogue and changes in speech communication in international law; communicative strategies in the political environment, etc. The best speeches are published in the journal "Visnyk NAU".
The Dobrov Institute conducts theoretical and applied research and development in the field of history, theory and organization of science. The main areas of activity of the Institute are:
- Conducting scientific research in the field of science studies, history of science and technology and innovation;
- Coordination of scientific research in the field of science, history of science and technology and innovation in other institutions of the NAS of Ukraine;
- Generalization of experience, long-term trends, patterns and justification of means of solving problems of development of scientific and technical potential of Ukraine in the context of development of world science and tasks of building knowledge economy and knowledge society in Ukraine;
- Scientific and organizational support for the implementation by scientific institutions and departments of the NAS of Ukraine of comprehensive analytical and forecasting studies of the scientific and technological development of Ukraine;
- historical and scientific analysis of the experience, state and justification of the prospects for scientific, technical and socio-economic development of the NAS of Ukraine, increasing its role in society as the highest state scientific organization of Ukraine, namely: 1) study and justification of ways to increase the role and contribution of the NAS of Ukraine to the formation and development of a world-class national innovation system in Ukraine; 2) development of proposals for ways and means of integrating the NAS of Ukraine into the world and European scientific spaces, including through increased cooperation within UNESCO and other international organizations; 3) development of scientific and methodological support and analytical support for the interaction of the NAS of Ukraine with the most high-tech sectors of the country's economy; 4) studying the experience and developing proposals for the implementation of modern methods of evaluating and stimulating the effective activities of scientific institutions, their scientific divisions and individual scientists, the use of competitive forms of financing scientific research, the preservation and renewal of scientific schools.
The Institute performs methodological, scientific and organizational, forecasting and analytical, educational and methodological functions and coordinates and scientifically and methodologically supports scientific research in the field of history, management and organization of science, conducted by scientific institutions and higher educational institutions of Ukraine, provides them with scientific and methodological assistance in training scientific personnel in the profile of the Institute. The Institute cooperates with the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Science and Education, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, ministries, departments, scientific institutions, enterprises, organizations of Ukraine.
The Institute is the basic organization of the Ukrainian Society of Historians of Science.
The Institute conducts research on the state of science and prospects for scientific and technological development of Ukraine, which are the basis for annual draft reports on the state of science and prospects for scientific and technological development of Ukraine.