Systematic monitoring of global tendencies and trends enables governments to set their work agendas and make future-oriented policies, plan ecosystem development using advanced technologies, mobilize resources in a sound manner, etc. For business, trend analysis gives an idea of the further technological development of various fields of activity and helps to form an investment portfolio in advance, redesign a business or develop a successful business plan for production, etc. In Ukraine, the effectiveness and efficiency of scientific, technical and innovation policy is largely determined by the establishment and support of priorities for scientific, technical and innovative development. Therefore, for the correct formation of the further development strategy of the state, it is necessary, first, to determine scientific directions capable of producing competitive innovative solutions, which will create the basis for a significant technological breakthrough of the state and ensure the achievement of the national Sustainable Development Goals in the future. The purpose of this work is to analyse technological trends in the context of national Sustainable Development Goals to determine new priority areas for scientific and technological development in Ukraine for 2021-2030. The analysis of technological trends for Sustainable Development Goals was conducted to achieve the goals. There are the following: No. 2 "Overcome hunger, agricultural development", No. 3 "Good health and well-being", No. 6 "Clean water and proper sanitation", No. 7 "Affordable and clean energy", No. 9 "Industry, innovation and infrastructure", No. 11 "Sustainable Development of Cities and Communities", No. 12 "Responsible consumption and production", No. 14 "Conservation of marine resources" and "Global innovative trends in social and humanitarian development". The conducted research allowed to obtain the following results: - approaches to identify technological trends in the context of national Sustainable Development Goals based on the synthesis of methods of patent analysis and analysis of publications have been developed; - an up-to-date list of technological trends was formed for those Sustainable Development Goals, the tasks of which contain the words - "based on innovative or new technologies", "based on scientific research"; - the identified trends are used as the basis for informing experts during conducting foresight studies to identify new priority areas of scientific and technological development in Ukraine in 2019 and to assess the areas proposed by experts as priority.
Foresight-based forecasting methods have become widespread throughout the world, which provide for the study of the prospects for the development of markets, industries, science-intensive products, with the justification of management decisions, etc. Technological foresight is a method for determining the prospects for innovative development, identifying technological breakthroughs that can maximally affect the development of the economy and society in the medium and long term. The validity period of the Laws of Ukraine "On Priority Areas of Scientific and Technical Activity" and "On Priority Areas of Innovation Activity in Ukraine" expires in 2021-2022. Taking into account the Decree of the President of Ukraine from September 30, 2019 No. 722/2019 "On the Sustainable Development Goals of Ukraine for the period up to 2030", it was decided to conduct foresight studies in Ukraine, and put the Sustainable Development Goals as their basis. The chosen methodology provided for foresight research in three stages: 1) a survey of experts - representatives of scientific organizations and higher educational institutions (HEIs) on the proposed directions of scientific and technological research that are important for achieving the SDG in Ukraine; 2) a survey of experts - representatives of business and central authorities on the acceptability of the directions proposed by scientists for the development of business and the state; 3) determination of international competitiveness and patentability of the Ukrainian scientists proposals. More than 500 experts took part in foresight research in Ukraine, including representatives of central executive authorities, scientists, heads of public organizations, associations and businessmen. Based on the results of expert surveys, a list of the most necessary directions for the development of science and technology for 2021-2030 for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals was determined. This list includes proposals on the topics of all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which are proposed to be combined into such clusters and which are proposed as strategic priorities for scientific and technological activities: • digitalization of the economy; • green growth and increased resource efficiency of the economy; • overcoming hunger, developing the agro-industrial complex; • health of the nation; • development of industry 4.0 and convergent technologies; • development of an inclusive society.
The article analyzes the regulatory legal acts of the European Union and Ukraine in the field of marine research and identifies key gaps in Ukrainian legislation. It has been established that the EU legislation provides for the observance of the principle of integration of science, industry, politics and society and pooling their resources for the financing of marine research. The priority thematic areas of European legal support in this field are: research on climate change, protection and recovery of marine biodiversity, ecosystem approach to resource management and spatial planning, renewable ocean energy, impact of human activity on coastal and marine ecosystems, generation of digital scientific knowledge about seas and oceans and free access to them, forming the foundations of a carbon-neutral and cyclical EU’s “blue” economy. It is noted that, despite the wide range of legislative acts adopted in Ukraine, which regulate the field of marine research, there is a dispersal regarding the directions of these researches, and the basic principles of their conduct are not defined. The priority areas of scientific marine research need to be determined. It is concluded that there is a need to form a more consistent policy regarding marine scientific research, to strengthen partnerships with the participation of all interested parties who mobilize and distribute knowledge, experience, technologies and financial resources in the interests of the sustainable development of water resources of Ukraine. This requires establishing the basic principles of conducting marine scientific research, applying a foresight approach to determine the priority areas of marine scientific research for Ukraine. After the approval of the Foresight’s results by the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers, the main tasks are focus on these priority areas during forming a state order for conducting marine scientific research and annually monitor the implementation of the identified priorities and provide a report on the monitoring results.
The work was carried out in the framework of the formation of proposals for the project of new priority directions of scientific and technological development of Ukraine for 2021-2030. Its goal is to establish the most promising and most priority scientific and technological directions in the field of medicine for Ukraine to achieve Sustainable Development Goal No. 3 "Good health and well-being". To achieve this goal, foreign information sources on innovations in the medical field, as well as strategic program documents of the EU countries have been analyzed and key areas of global technological development have been identified. A scientometric analysis of the medical sphere was carried out on the basis of the international database Web of Science, namely, the publication activity and dynamics of citations of a selected array of publications were investigated and the directions with the highest rates of publication activity and high rates of growth of citations were identified. A patent analysis of the field of medicine was carried out, in particular, patents publications from the Derwent Innovation database that correspond to medical topics by keywords and codes of the international patent classification were selected. A selected array of patents on the dynamics of patenting and placement on a landscape map was examined. Areas with the highest rates of patent activity were highlighted. The promising technological areas of the field of medicine were identified, which included areas with the highest growth rates of publication and patent activity, high rates of citation growth and saturation of patents on the landscape map at the same time. As a result of the work, it was concluded that the most promising medical technologies in the world are: wearable devices, 3D printing, smart technologies, health trackers, augmented reality and precise (personalized) medicine. The obtained results can be used in the formation of new priority areas of scientific and technological development of Ukraine in the field of healthcare.
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