10 December 2008, 14:59
The People´s Deputies of Ukraine, the Leaders of Ministries, Universities, representatives of public organizations took part in the meeting that was held in National Technical University "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
While delivering the speech, the Chairman of the Committee on Science and Education, Volodymyr Polohalo stressed that "the state policy in the sphere of higher education should be concentrated on the transference of scientific exploitations from the sphere of received knowledge to the sphere of production".
During the meeting it was declared that the on the way creation of innovating infrastructure and civilized market of intellectual property market, there are many obstacles, namely "duplication of managing functions, absence of implementation mechanism that will help to implement the objects of intellectual property law into the economic market, problems with the issue on the rewards for the authors intellectual projects etc." As a result the implementation innovative projects "does not change its state or even decreased".
In particular, it was stressed that the leaders of the state enterprises usually do not have the sufficient information regarding the scientific and technical innovations at their disposal. The participants declared that "the routine scientific process dominates over the scientific and research one in the majority of Ukrainian universities".