Educational dominant of the information economy development: a case of Latvia for Ukraine
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2021-09-21Автор
Djakona, A
Kholiavko, N
Dubyna, M
Zhavoronok, A
Fedyshyn, M
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Introduction. In recent years, digitalization is one of the defining trends of the development in the leading
countries of the world. The development of information economy is influenced by a combination of factors;
however, the most powerful is an educational dominant. The higher education institutions (HEIs) carry out
training activities for information economy, the development of digital skills of the personnel, as well as
carrying out studies of the personnel’s digital skills, and conducting research, generating innovations and
their transfer to the real sector of economy. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the impact of higher
education on the dynamics of information economy on the example of Latvia with further identification
of the best practices and their adaptation to the Ukrainian social and economic conditions. The research
methodology is conditioned by the implementation of the in-depth comparative analysis of the development
of higher education systems in Latvia and Ukraine; within the study, were used the method of constructing
cubic regression models of the relationship between indicators.
The hypothesis:
1) there is an objective interaction between the level of economic development of the country and the
amount of public funding for higher education;
2)the information economy development is largely determined by the level of higher education development,
and funding for research at HEIs.
Results. The study revealed the following constraints on the development of the national higher education
system: complex geopolitical, demographic, migration situation, which affects the parameters of the
student body of HEIs; low competitiveness level of HEIs in the global educational services market; low
level of financial autonomy of HEIs; lack of financing, low level of diversification of the financing sources for
HEIs, etc. These problems negatively affect the pace of the information economy development in Ukraine.
The authors proved that the Latvian experience in the implementation of the digitalization strategy could
be useful for Ukraine, because of some similar economic, social, mental, historic conditions and factors
of development of both countries. The calculations on the econometric models of relationship between
funding and basic indicators of higher education development in Ukraine and Latvia showed: the amount
of funding for higher education systems does not depend on the number of HEIs; the number of students
depends on the amount of public funding (this indicates the important role of the state in the higher
education development, in increasing the level of accessibility of higher education for citizens); close
relationship between the amount of funding for higher education and the number of graduate students;
positive trend in funding for higher education.
Conclusions. The authors conclude that strengthening the impact of the educational dominant on the
information economy development requires: ensuring a proactive position of HEIs (by modernizing
their educational, research and innovation activities); activating the role of the government sector in
protection of intellectual property, stimulating the development of innovatively active enterprises and
their cooperation with universities, involving investments in the development of the HEIs’ innovative
infrastructure, commercialization of innovative results of the research in the real sector of the economy.