Scientific and innovation potential recovery of Ukraine: from entrepreneurial to innovation universities

The article reveals the modern problem of Ukrainian strategizing practice of socio-economic development that a separate factor associated with the creation of research, entrepreneurial, and innovation Universities has been absent there. It is shown that this reality directly contradicts the current world trends, where the development of the mentioned types of universities is an important priority of the state economic policy. An analysis of the evolutionary transformation of the content and role of the functioning of university-type institutions as a production factor of the economic development of countries, which ensures the influence of the scientific activity of universities on the effectiveness of economic systems, is performed. A review of the literature is presented, which demonstrates the evolution of organizational types of universities from purely research to entrepreneurial and innovative ones.A problematic analysis of the state of innovative performance of Ukrainian universities, particularly those that had the status of “research”, was carried out according to official statistics of inventive activity, which reflect the indicators of the stages of the innovation cycle: the number of received patents, inventions, useful models and industrial samples. This analysis of the innovation potential of the leading Ukrainian universities showed that they do not ensure the commercialization of their inventions and scientific and technological developments in the form of industrial samples. In this context, for the post-war restoration of the scientific and innovative potential of Ukraine, it is proposed to create organizational and material and technical conditions for the formation and effective functioning of research, entrepreneurial and innovative universities. It is shown that the implementation of an innovative model of economic development in Ukraine determines new principles of organization of the field of higher education and science, which provide this field with a central place in innovation ecosystems through the introduction of the “Triple Helix” model that should be included in management on all stages of innovation cycle.