Foresight in Ukraine in 2019-2020: the vision of experts in priority areas of science and technology in Ukraine for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract: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 … Show more
“…Problems of scientific and technological forecasting, the formation of scientific [4,5,6]. Foreign and domestic scientists [7,8,9,10,11,12,13] consider various aspects of determining the priority areas of scientific, technical and innovative activities through foresight research, in particular for forecasting the future, planning technological policy, and so on.…”
Section: Analysis Of Recent Research and Publicationsmentioning
Given the growing role of technological foresight as a tool for reconciling visions, goals and ways of STI development in an era of rapid technological change and global challenges, the approach to foresight research to select priorities for science and innovation in Ukraine for 2022–2026 has been improved. It takes into account a wide range of national targets for achieving SDGs by 2030. The developed Methodological recommendations provided a thorough analysis of more than 3,000 potentially acceptable technological and innovative proposals. The approach to setting STI priorities is new for Ukraine and involves a consistent process of selecting the top 30 most acceptable proposals in each of the seven thematic areas through five stages of discussions and evaluations. The result was the formation of a database of technology passports and developments on the experts’ proposals, their selection by practitioners, ranking, evaluation in terms of the potential of Ukrainian science and relevance in terms of world science and new technologies using international databases. They are the basis for decisions by the Expert Councils and the High-Level Working Group on key thematic areas and the preparation of a relevant draft government decision. Despite the conditions of quarantine, for the first time more than 2,500 experts from science, business, state and public organizations took part in the discussions, which is the basis for impartial and public decision-making. To strengthen the role of foresight as a tool for public planning and management in the field of STI, it is proposed to develop a STI roadmap as part of a research and innovation strategy for smart specialization (RIS 3) at the national level.
“…Problems of scientific and technological forecasting, the formation of scientific [4,5,6]. Foreign and domestic scientists [7,8,9,10,11,12,13] consider various aspects of determining the priority areas of scientific, technical and innovative activities through foresight research, in particular for forecasting the future, planning technological policy, and so on.…”
Section: Analysis Of Recent Research and Publicationsmentioning
Given the growing role of technological foresight as a tool for reconciling visions, goals and ways of STI development in an era of rapid technological change and global challenges, the approach to foresight research to select priorities for science and innovation in Ukraine for 2022–2026 has been improved. It takes into account a wide range of national targets for achieving SDGs by 2030. The developed Methodological recommendations provided a thorough analysis of more than 3,000 potentially acceptable technological and innovative proposals. The approach to setting STI priorities is new for Ukraine and involves a consistent process of selecting the top 30 most acceptable proposals in each of the seven thematic areas through five stages of discussions and evaluations. The result was the formation of a database of technology passports and developments on the experts’ proposals, their selection by practitioners, ranking, evaluation in terms of the potential of Ukrainian science and relevance in terms of world science and new technologies using international databases. They are the basis for decisions by the Expert Councils and the High-Level Working Group on key thematic areas and the preparation of a relevant draft government decision. Despite the conditions of quarantine, for the first time more than 2,500 experts from science, business, state and public organizations took part in the discussions, which is the basis for impartial and public decision-making. To strengthen the role of foresight as a tool for public planning and management in the field of STI, it is proposed to develop a STI roadmap as part of a research and innovation strategy for smart specialization (RIS 3) at the national level.
The article is devoted to the results of forecasting research to identify priority areas of research and technology in the field of marine conservation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 14 “Conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”. The research was performed in terms of national objectives of this goal in the following stages: 1) survey of experts from scientific organizations and institutions of higher education on research and technology that can offer domestic science, and which are necessary for the implementation of the tasks of SDG No. 14; 2) survey of expert practitioners on the research and technologies proposed at the first stage, which are needed by the real sector; 3) determining the competitiveness of the proposed research/technology based on bibliometric/ patent analysis. The generalized estimation of all offered directions of scientific researches and technologies on these stages and their clustering according to the received estimation is carried out. According to the results of the work of 13 proposals on the national tasks of the SDG No. 14 priority technologies are identified: integrated assessment of the ecological status of natural ecosystems of the sea on the basis of field research and methods of remote sensing of the earth; express water toxicity indicator; ecological management of coastal-marine waters of estuaries and estuaries in the conditions of development of nature protection activity; adapted for Ukraine international methods for determining the number of fish and estimating the total allowable catches in the Black and Azov Seas; new approaches to managing the use of aquatic biological resources of the Black and Azov Seas aimed at sustainable use of resources.
The article is devoted to the results of a forecast study to identify scientific, technological, managerial and production potential of Ukraine at the regional level in terms of national objectives Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) No. 14 “Conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”. The study is the next in a series of predictive studies on the conservation of marine resources. The study was carried out by the Forsyth method using expert panels. A survey of experts-scientists of scientific organizations and institutions of higher education on research and technology required for the implementation of the SDG No. 14, and a survey of experts-practitioners in public administration and production to assess the proposed areas of research and technology, were conducted. According to the results of the survey, scientific and technological, managerial and production potentials at the regional level for its possible use in the implementation of national tasks of the SDG No. 14 were determined.
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