IT Industry as the Basis of Innovative Development Economy of Ukraine

Abstract

Formulation of the problem. The current stage of development of the world economy is characterized by accelerated rates of scientific and technological progress and increasing intellectualization of the main factors of production. The development of a country and its level of competitiveness in the world market depends on the innovative activity of the subjects of the national economy. Nowadays, scientific knowledge and information resources are an important information and communication resource of the economy. The system of relations of modern society is turning in the direction of more efficient work with information.The social significance of any process is determined not only by the availability of resources, production conditions, capital or money, but also by the availability of information resources, scientific knowledge and information. Priorities in industrial relations are shifting to scientific knowledge and information. In modern economy, social significance depends on the information essence, that is, the awareness of the subject or the saturation of its information flows. Public and economic power is shifted not to the owners of tangible capital but to the owners of information that is educational about how to make the most of the wealth in today's economy. Today, the richest people in the world are those involved in the information business.Analysis of recent research and publications. The high degree of influence of information on modern socio-economic processes is emphasized by many researchers. Information economy in a narrow sense means "the aggregate of industries related to information production and logistics of this process" [1, p. 74]. In the broad sense of IE, it is seen as a component of IP, in which "socio-economic development depends, first of all, on the production, storage and dissemination of information among members of society" [2, p. 35], and productivity gains in the "new" economy, in turn, are driven by technological advances in information processing and transmission. Considerable contribution to the research of problems of innovative activity was made by such domestic and foreign scientists as