PROBLEMS AND TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SYSTEMS OF AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: REGULATORY ASPECT

Inna KOVALCHUK, Anna PAKHOMOVA, Victoria MELNYK

KOVALCHUK I., PAKHOMOVA A., MELNYK V. (2023), PROBLEMS AND TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SYSTEMS OF AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: REGULATORY ASPECT; Scientific Bulletin of Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, № 1, 346-354

DOI: 10.31733/2078-3566-2023-1-346-354

 

ABSTRACT. The article highlights scientific approaches to the analysis of the legal framework and its compliance with the development trends of technology transfer systems of agricultural institutions of higher education on the basis of forecasting indicators of innovative development taking into account world experience. Such an analysis will make it possible to achieve efficiency in the processes of normative and legal regulation of innovative activity in the national economy and accelerate the pace of its development.

The article highlights the current problems of the operation of technology transfer offices (TTOs) in Ukraine, it also analyzes the effective practices of the operation of TTOs, but they do not take into account the current problems of the economic development of Ukraine. That is why the purpose of the Article is to analyze the regulatory framework of innovative activity in agricultural universities and to study the possibilities of changing the status of these institutions in the global market of educational services and high-tech products, with the prospect of involving them in the subjects of the global innovation network.

The article reviews foreign and domestic scientific works and regulations, which are devoted to the practice and experience of the most famous TTOs. Based on the analysis of the best global practices of TTOs operation, practical recommendations on the functioning of domestic TTOs were obtained considering modern realities. It was found that only a small number of technologies among a large portfolio of intellectual property objects are capable of generating significant income. The Article provides recommendations for domestic scientific institutions based on many years of experience of western TTOs.

Keywords: innovations, technology transfer, commercialization of scientific developments, technology transfer offices, agricultural institutions of higher education.

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