The prolonged period of military action on the territory of Ukraine leads to increased disparities in regional development, which requires the application of adequate mechanisms not only to ensure their security and recovery, but also to ensure competitiveness on a qualitative basis with the availability of effective and reliable tools for managing innovation processes. Practice has shown that an ecosystem approach to the organization of innovative activity allows for the activation of internal market mechanisms based on the principles of self-development and self-realization, but requires constant updating of both methodological and organizational tools, including in the formation of regional innovation ecosystems (RIE), which is primarily due to technological and institutional factors. The purpose of the article is to identify the peculiarities of the formation and development of innovation ecosystems in the regions of Ukraine, taking into account current socio-economic challenges, as well as to justify directions for improving the effectiveness of the implementation of innovation potential in the context of the implementation of updated regional development strategies. Based on a systematic study, the features of the current stage of formation and development of innovation ecosystems in the regions of Ukraine have been analyzed and identified, taking into account socio-economic and technological challenges. The directions for improving the effectiveness of the implementation of innovative potential using modern models of innovative ecosystems in the context of the implementation of updated regional development strategies have been identified and substantiated. It has been proven that regional and local authorities, when developing updated strategies for the development of territories and selecting mechanisms for their implementation, need to focus on the methodology and practice of European countries regarding the functioning of regional innovation ecosystems that are capable of making a technological breakthrough in the relevant segments of the local, national, and international markets and capable of ensuring the technological leadership of the region as a whole.
The article addresses the problem of forming an innovative regional waste management system in Ukraine in the context of ecological, social, and economic challenges, with a particular focus on the Carpathian region. It emphasizes that traditional approaches, primarily based on landfilling and partial recycling, have exhausted their potential and no longer correspond to the strategic priorities of sustainable development or the requirements of European integration. The study substantiates the need for innovative models capable of ensuring the transition to a circular economy, strengthening ecological security, and fostering socio-economic resilience. The methodological framework of the research combines systemic analysis of waste flows, forecasting and scenario modeling, institutional and legal assessment, as well as socio-economic analysis. This integrated approach makes it possible to identify bottlenecks of the current system, outline potential points for introducing innovative solutions, and design regionally adapted strategies. The conceptual model of the proposed system is based on the waste hierarchy, which prioritizes waste prevention, reuse, recycling, and energy recovery over disposal. It also highlights the importance of combining technological innovations (digital monitoring systems, automated sorting lines, biotechnological and energy solutions) with organizational and economic mechanisms such as extended producer responsibility, public-private partnerships, and clustering of regional initiatives. Special attention is given to the role of digitalization, which provides opportunities for monitoring waste flows, infrastructure capacity, and collection points in real time, thereby increasing transparency and efficiency. The research also emphasizes the social dimension of waste management, including community involvement in separate collection practices, environmental education, and capacity building of local specialists. These aspects are considered essential for building long-term resilience, particularly under the conditions of war and post-war recovery. The article systematizes international experience, especially from EU member states, where advanced recycling technologies, circular economy strategies, and effective institutional mechanisms have already been introduced. This analysis provides a methodological orientation for adapting best practices to the Ukrainian context. The practical implementation of the proposed model is expected to enhance ecological safety, reduce the carbon footprint, stimulate investment in sustainable infrastructure, and promote the development of secondary resource markets. In the long term, the innovative regional waste management system will contribute not only to minimizing environmental risks but also to strengthening the socio-economic foundations of sustainable regional development in line with European standards.
The institutional problems of agglomeration development in modern Ukraine are investigated. The main institutional traps that increase transaction costs in the agglomeration process and limit the development potential of agglomerations are outlined. In particular, it concerns institutional traps: structural disproportions, negative expectations, vain hopes, grant dependence, divergence, incompatibility of motives, and illegalization. The basic mechanisms and effects that facilitate the formation, spread, and fixation of institutional traps are described, both in the evolutionary context and from the point of view of modern socio-economic conditions in Ukraine. The essence of the effects of coordination, assimilation, combination, cultural inertia, and lobbying in the agglomeration process is revealed. Examples of their negative impact on agglomeration processes in Ukraine are given using the example of the emergence and expansion of some institutional traps. It has been proven that gaps in the regulatory and legal system of agglomeration development in modern Ukraine are very important factors in forming an institutional trap. The significant role of the institutional and legal environment in overcoming institutional traps is indicated, and the need for its improvement is noted. At the same time, it is shown that today, the importance of factors such as the efficiency of agglomerations’ public governance and the quality of human and social capital of the territorial communities that are part of them is growing. In particular, attention is focused on the expediency of intensifying intermunicipal cooperation and intersectoral partnership. Special attention is paid to business, scientific, and educational institutions, civil society institutions, and others in overcoming institutional traps. At the same time, priority areas of their positive impact on increasing the efficiency of the Ukrainian agglomeration functioning are outlined. Priority tasks for eradicating existing institutional traps and preventing their further emergence at the stage of post-war recovery of the Ukrainian economy are substantiated. The focus is on Ukraine’s adaptation to EU institutional standards and the popularization of successful European practices of agglomeration and their management. It is proposed that experts from EU member states be involved in training representatives of Ukrainian agglomerations and transferring their relevant experience. Simultaneously, the feasibility of broader use of Nudge technologies, gamification tools, and advocacy for positive changes is emphasized to level the destructive impact of institutional traps on the quality of the investment climate of agglomerations and on the efficiency of using their resource potential. It is proposed that agglomerations be provided with clear signs of their industry specialization based on existing competitive advantages and economic traditions of development of their communities.
The article calculates the main indicators of the socio-economic potential of the agglomerations of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, and Zakarpattia regions as the sum of the respective statistical indicators of the territorial communities that form these agglomerations. Using panel regression based on data for the period 2019–2021, an assessment was conducted of the impact of the socio-economic potential indicators of the agglomerations on the economic growth of the Carpathian region. he research results revealed a strong dependence of the GRP indicators of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, and Zakarpattia regions on changes in the number of enterprises, the financial result of enterprises before taxation, and the share of profit-making enterprises in the total number of enterprises, which can be considered the main factors influencing the agglomerations’ impact on the region’s economic development in the short term. The impact of the dynamics of the number of enterprises and the financial result of enterprises before taxation on GRP was direct: a 1% increase in each of these independent variables during the study period contributed to an increase in the dependent variable by 0.96% and 0.145%, respectively. The relationship between GRP and the share of profit-making enterprises in the total number of enterprises was inverse: a 1% increase in the independent variable led to a 1.047% decrease in the dependent variable. The decline in the share of profit-making enterprises in the total number of agglomeration enterprises observed during 2019–2021 had a positive effect on the regions’ GRP. This inverse relationship is explained by the increase in the shadow component of business, as a result of which enterprises invest the profits received in the development of production and increase the volume of products produced, but at the same time declare unprofitability and do not pay taxes in the proper amount. A study of the dependence of the economic growth of the Lviv region on the socio-economic potential of the Lviv agglomeration for 2012-2021, conducted using linear multiple regression, showed that in the long term, the key factors of the region’s economic development were the following indicators: volumes of products sold, the number of employees at enterprises, and personnel costs of enterprises. According to the first model, a direct dependence of the GRP of the Lviv region on changes in volumes of products sold and an inverse dependence on changes in the number of employees at enterprises were revealed. The second regression model confirmed the inverse dependence of the GRP of the Lviv region on the number of employees at enterprises and a direct relationship between GRP and the volume of personnel costs of enterprises. It was concluded that local authorities should take into account the research results when justifying the priority directions of development strategies for territorial communities that form the urban agglomerations of the Carpathian region, in order to accelerate economic growth based on the effective use of agglomerations’ socio-economic potential.
The article explores the modernization of public investment mechanisms in the context of balanced regional socio-economic development in Ukraine. The relevance of the study is conditioned by Ukraine’s urgent needs for post-war recovery, digital transformation of public governance, and the implementation of the 2024–2028 Roadmap for Public Investment Management Reform approved by the Government of Ukraine. The study outlines key systemic deficiencies that hinder effective public investment, such as the absence of a unified long-term investment strategy, weak coordination between central and local authorities, insufficient alignment with national development goals, institutional fragmentation, and lack of transparency. The paper emphasizes the necessity of strategic planning, digitalization, interinstitutional coordination, and the engagement of private and international financing to enhance investment efficiency and impact. Special attention is devoted to the role of simulation and analytical tools that can support evidence-based investment planning and project evaluation. The need to create a digital investment architecture - including platforms such as DREAM - is recognized as a key driver for improving transparency, monitoring, and control of public investment flows. The findings suggest that the modernization of Ukraine’s public investment system should rest on four strategic pillars: development of a long-term strategic planning framework, institutional reform and capacity building, full digitalization of investment procedures, and mobilization of private and international co-financing. Enhancing the transparency and effectiveness of public investments will not only accelerate regional recovery and modernization but also foster investor confidence and long-term development resilience. The study provides a conceptual basis for the formulation of targeted policy instruments aimed at strengthening the regional investment ecosystem and supporting Ukraine’s transition to a sustainable, inclusive, and innovation-driven development trajectory.
Since the 2020s, the strategic imperative and main competitive advantage for socio-economic systems has been to build resilience to unstable changes (shocks) in the external environment associated with global economic crises, natural and man-made disasters (disappearance of global biodiversity, climate change, increasing environmental pollution, natural disasters), global institutional economic and political transformations (decisions), political and ideological crises, technological and innovative breakthroughs, diplomatic confrontations, wars, pandemics, etc. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the concept of endogenous capacity of a region as a dominant factor in the formation of its resilient socio-economic system. The main factors and prerequisites for the formation of endogenous capacity of a region as a dominant factor in ensuring a resilient socio-economic system of the region are identified. The endogenous capacity for the formation of a resilient socio-economic system of the region is defined as the totality of the region’s internal potentials (human, natural, financial, institutional, social) that ensure its ability to develop independently and adapt in conditions of instability and change. Specifically, it is determined that endogenous capacity is characterized by the ability to recover and reorient after the impact of external global crises and challenges through internal adaptive drivers and internal socio-economic, institutional, and transformational potential of the region, which ensures the protection and structural renewal of the characteristics of the region’s socio-economic system in order to increase its ability to withstand negative influences, minimize losses, recover and transform quickly, while maintaining economic dynamics and social cohesion. Particular attention is paid to the factors of targeted endogenization of regional development in Ukraine, the priorities of increasing the endogenous potential of the socio-economic system from the perspective of ensuring an active frontal innovation policy, improving national ecogenetics, economic stability, and security based on the national roots of economic development.
region, endogenous capacity of the region, internal potential of the region, resilient socio-economic system, endogenous development
The article is devoted to the study of the fundamental principles of economic development at the regional level, with the aim of further improving and adapting them to the needs of economic development of territorial and economic systems at various administrative levels and ensuring the ability of the entity to achieve the planned economic result. The article examines conceptual approaches to the economic development of territorial-economic systems based on fundamental philosophical concepts. The trinity of information, energy, and matter (as components of the material world) is considered in the implementation of economic development of territorial-economic systems from the perspective of the concept of “Things, Properties, Relations.” A connection between modern economic theories and fundamental philosophical concepts is established. The potential for improving regulatory and legal documentation by increasing the attention paid in official documents to issues of economic development at the regional and basic levels is identified. The author’s approach to considering models, mechanisms, and instruments of economic development is proposed, which is based on the functional combination of approaches of philosophical concepts in accordance with the phase of economic development, taking into account the properties of the subject of economic development to carry out the transformation. The dialectical interdependence of the development of the subject and object of economic development in the process of interaction is considered. Two formulas for implementing economic development are proposed, based on deductive and inductive approaches to initiating change, which are characterized by differences in the sequence of development phases, depending on the identified properties of the development subject and its ability to determine and evaluate the properties of the object. The mechanisms and instruments of economic development at the regional level that need to be studied at further stages are identified. The crucial role of the existential approach in development planning, particularly in the context of post-war recovery, is identified.
territorial-economic system, economic development, regional development, theoretical-conceptual approach, philosophical concepts, deductive model of economic development, inductive model of economic development
The article provides an express analysis of the state of the construction industry in Ukraine, identifying characteristic trends in investment in the residential construction sector at the regional level and identifying problems, potential, and prospects for the formation of a corresponding market. It justifies the need to form a housing construction market at the regional level based on increasing its investment attractiveness and improving the relationships between participants in the investment process. A SWOT analysis of the prospects for the development of the construction industry in Ukraine at the regional level has been carried out, and proposals have been developed to improve the effectiveness of local government bodies in attracting public investment for the implementation of housing construction programs. The role of international support for both the national economy as a whole and the construction industry and housing construction sector in the implementation of restoration and development programs and projects has been demonstrated with specific examples.
housing construction, investment, regional development, local self-government, public investment
The study examines the alarming scale and critically negative structural features of migration processes in Ukraine and its regions against the backdrop of intensified external migration activity, a demographic crisis, significant human losses due to war, and socio-economic upheavals. The article substantiates the urgent need to develop and implement a National Strategy for Migration Security in Ukraine aimed at establishing effective mechanisms for regulating migration flows, overcoming challenges and threats associated with mass population movements, and achieving strategic and operational goals to enhance migration resilience. Particular attention is paid to differentiating the strategy across three regional types: frontline, rear, and border regions, which exhibit varying socio-economic war impacts and migration-related challenges. The purpose of the article is to justify methodological and practical approaches to the formation of strategic directions for ensuring Ukraine’s migration security, taking into account the spatial specifics and challenges of the socio-economic stability of the regions. The overarching goal of the proposed strategy is to preserve and restore Ukraine’s human capital and to counter national security threats through rational and effective migration management. Key strategic alternatives have been identified for each region type: 1) restoration of human and labor potential considering demographic losses and labor migration; 2) efficient utilization of existing potential through employment stimulation and support for socially vulnerable groups; 3) youth retention, promotion of re-emigration, and adaptation of vulnerable population categories requiring additional support. Each alternative is accompanied by relevant strategic and operational objectives as well as state policy tasks aimed at sustainable development and improving migration security at both national and regional levels.
migration, shocks, security, Ukraine, war, regions, strategy, operational tasks, goals, socio-economic development
The theoretical issues of the essential understanding of the labor potential of the regions of Ukraine are considered and the author’s approach to its assessment is proposed. It is noted that the introduction of digital technologies into economic activity causes a change in the nature of people’s labor activity. Attention is focused on the educational and scientific components of the labor potential of the workforce as a determining factor of labor capacity in the conditions of digitalization in order to assess the total ability to work of the population of the region through the prism of the possibility of perceiving and increasing the achievements of scientific and technical thought in the conditions of the challenges of digitalization and threats of wartime. The level of education of the workforce in the context of the regions of Ukraine is analyzed. Structural shifts in employees involved in scientific research and development by personnel categories in the regions of Ukraine are identified. The qualification composition of researchers in the regions of Ukraine is analyzed. A slowdown in patent activity in Ukraine over the past five years is identified. Ukraine is characterized by a low level and a downward trend in the dynamics of the number of researchers per 1 million population compared to neighboring countries. The state of the labor potential of the regions of Ukraine in 2021 was determined using the integral assessment method based on group integral indices of two blocks: educational and intellectual. It was established that the educational component of the labor potential of the workforce in the regions of Ukraine has achieved a significantly higher level compared to the scientific one. The regions of Ukraine are grouped into three classes depending on the achieved level of labor potential of the workforce. A low level of labor potential of the workforce was identified for most regions of Ukraine. The labor potential of the workforce was assessed at a high level only in the city of Kyiv due to the high level of both educational and scientific potential.
labor potential, labor potential assessment, region, level of education of the workforce, intellectual potential, integral assessment
Despite immense losses incurred (over USD 150 billion) due to Russian armed aggression, industry remains a fundamental sector of the national economy, accounting for 17.34% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2024 (compared to 20.39% in 2021). Accordingly, the study aims to assess the trends of structural and spatial changes in the industrial sector of Ukraine’s regions amid the full-scale war. The article analyzes the development dynamics of domestic industry during 2022-2024 and in Q1 2025. Attention is focused on industries related to ensuring the functioning of the defense-industrial complex and which are among the TOP-10 in terms of the growth rate of sold production volume. Vectors of transformation in the structure of the manufacturing industry have been established, specifically an increase in the share of machine building and, conversely, a significant reduction in the share of metallurgy. A comparative assessment of changes in the export orientation level of manufacturing industries, as well as the innovation activity of industrial enterprises, was conducted. The directions of spatial transformation of Ukraine’s industry are diagnosed based on the results of calculating the regions’ share in the structure of sold industrial products and the share of processing in the added value of their economies. The relationship between the dynamics of sold products and employment dynamics in the manufacturing industry of Ukraine’s regions has been verified. The level of labor productivity (as the ratio between the volume of produced goods and the number of hired employees in full-time equivalent at economic entities) is determined across manufacturing industries and regions. In conclusion, a tendency towards gradual equalization of industrial potential concentration is revealed, moving towards central and western regions, which is partly caused by the relocation of enterprises from frontline regions, but is primarily a consequence of the general shift of business activity poles to safer regions.
industry, volume of sold products, manufacturing industries, regions, dynamics, structure, employment, labor productivity
Peculiarities and main challenges of realization of Ukraine’s export potential in the conditions of war are studied. An analysis of the commodity structure of the country’s exports in 2021-2023 in monetary and physical dimensions was carried out. The value of the largest product groups of domestic exports per 1 ton was estimated, which made it possible to determine the prospects for the development of logistics and transport infrastructure for international transportation. The regional structure of export transportation in 2021-2023 is given. It has been studied that before the war, agriculture and metallurgy provided about 50% of foreign exchange earnings from exports and accounted for more than 70% of the physical volume of all exports. The commodity structure of export determined the formation of its logistics, the basis of which was sea transportation. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 affected the reduction of export potential by almost 40% due to the blocking of sea ports and the destruction of the production capacities of some export-oriented enterprises. Among the regions of Ukraine, about 40% of the total cargo flow was generated in Dnipropetrovska Oblast and the city of Kyiv, and about 70% in six regions of the country (Dnipropetrovska, Donetska, Zaporizhska, Mykolaivska, and Poltavska Oblasts and the city of Kyiv). Transportation of the main part of the products was carried out by railway in the direction of sea ports for further transportation already by sea transport. Factors influencing the formation and development of the country’s export logistics in wartime conditions have been identified. The directions of reorientation of cargo flows from Ukraine and the establishment of new logistics routes were studied. At the same time, the dynamics of changes in export volumes, its commodity and geographical structure are taken into account. It was found that the redistribution of commodity flows from Ukraine, caused by the war, is characterized by a significant reduction in exports to Asian and partly African markets, with a simultaneous reorientation to European markets, especially to neighboring countries. The dynamics of international freight transportation of Ukraine by types of transport was analyzed in terms of border sections and types of transport. It was investigated that the establishment of new logistics routes for the export of domestic products and the reorientation of part of the cargo flows from Ukrainian seaports in the direction of the western land border significantly increased the load on this section of the border. The throughput capacity of the border infrastructure on the Ukraine-EU border section did not meet the existing needs for exporting products. It is substantiated that the development and construction of the logistics and transport infrastructure to ensure the export of domestic products should take into account not only the current needs in the export of products. Their planning should be based on assessments of the commodity structure of exports in the medium and long term and forecast volumes of international and transit cargo flows.
export of products, logistical challenges, export logistics, international freight transportation, logistics and transport infrastructure, regions, Ukraine
The article is dedicated to a comprehensive study of the essence, prerequisites, and contemporary trends in the implementation of mass customization and personalization within the enterprise product policy system. Based on a synthesis of scientific approaches by domestic and foreign researchers, the content of mass customization is revealed as a process that combines the advantages of large-scale production with product individualization, enabling enterprises to flexibly adapt their product offerings to the needs of specific segments and individual consumers. Particular attention is paid to personalization as a logical continuation and deepening of customization, focused on creating a unique consumer experience, a personalized value proposition, and the development of long-term relationships with clients. It is substantiated that mass customization and personalization represent modern evolutionary forms of differentiation strategy, allowing enterprises to enhance the individualization of product offerings, create unique competitive advantages, and ensure market stability. At the same time, these approaches impose new requirements for the integration of marketing, production, and information processes, which is especially relevant in the context of business digital transformation, e-commerce development, and the use of big data to predict consumer behavior. The main forms and mechanisms of product personalization are identified and described, along with a comparative analysis of mass customization and personalization according to key parameters, revealing their advantages and limitations. The results obtained allow mass customization and personalization to be viewed not only as marketing tools but as an integrated component of the enterprise’s strategic development, aimed at enhancing product competitiveness, customer loyalty, and the effectiveness of marketing strategies. It is concluded that the implementation of these approaches is undoubtedly necessary for ensuring sustainable enterprise development, and further research should focus on developing interdisciplinary models and empirically testing the effectiveness of mass customization and personalization across various sectors of the economy.
For over 70 years, trade experts have sought to separate geopolitics and trade. Due to the shift in government priorities towards protectionism – a trend observed in the global economy in recent years following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis – approaches to defining the term “geoeconomics” as a conceptual category of trade policy and international trade research have changed. The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of global geopolitical crises on the challenges of securing global value chains with energy resources. The article examines the impact of geopolitical crises and sanctions regimes on the stability and functioning of global value chains in the energy sector. It reveals the content and transformation of the concept of “geoeconomics” in the context of modern trade policy focused on risks and economic security. It is determined that geo-economic policy is increasingly being used as a tool to achieve geopolitical goals, which contradicts the principles of the multilateral trading system and negatively affects global energy supply chains. The consequences of trade conflicts between the US and China, the COVID-19 pandemic, and full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine for energy markets and trade in renewable energy sources are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the European Union’s initiatives (in particular, the REPowerEU plan) to reduce dependence on Russian energy sources, develop green energy, and strengthen energy security. It has been found that sanctions policy targeting the Russian energy sector has led to a large-scale regrouping of global energy flows, changes in trade patterns, and increased investment in renewable energy. It has been proven that the formation of a new architecture of energy value chains requires a balance between economic efficiency, political stability, and resilience to geopolitical risks.
geoeconomics, global value chains, energy security, sanctions policy, renewable energy, trade risks
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UDC 330.341; JEL O18, O31