54 Volodymyrska St., 01601, Kyiv, Ukraine

Phone: (044) 239 6717; fax: (044) 234 8408;
e-mail:innov@nas.gov.ua

Research and science-organization activities of the Innovation Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is aimed at accelerating R&D progress in various sectors of the national economy; developing top priority branches of science, technology and economy in various regions of Ukraine, ensuring the appropriate environment for their sustainable innovation-based development.

Main areas of research and science-organization activities of the Center include:

Conducting studies on the development of principal organizartion forms of research, R&D and innovation operations in Ukraine;

Analyzing the needs of regional economies of Ukraine for scientific backup, as well as possibilities of Ukrainian science to meet those needs; working out proposals concerning efficient involvement of scientific potential to resolving relevant regional problems;

Expert, scientific, organizational and informational support to R&D cooperation between NAS and the regions of Ukraine;

Coordination, science-organizational and methodological provision of the regional science centers of NAS and the Ministry for Science and Education of Ukraine; development of scientifically substantiated proposals to improve the NAS regional structure;

Organizing and conducting integrated scientific studies on issues that are important to economic, social and cultural development of the city of Kyiv and the North-Western region of Ukraine.

The Innovation Center has developed scientific basis and principles for creative collaboration between Academy science and local governments of Ukraine and other CIS countries. Proceeding from these principles, programs for scientific and technological cooperation between NAS and several oblast state administrations, governments of Moscow and Moscow oblast were initiated.

In the framework of the Program on cooperation between NAS Ukraine and Kyiv City State Administration, the Center provides integrated archeological and hydro-geological monitoring research aimed at preserving the historical environment of the city of Kyiv. Practical recommendations on protection of historical and archeological sites and early landscapes of Kyiv were developed.

A number of new competitive technologies and prototypes of new equipment (in particular, a technology and commercial plant for depuration of oil-contaminated soils; a technology for utilizing chlor-organic waste products of vinyl chloride production, resulting in industrial inters; a technology for processing industrial waste products to obtain precious metals and electro-active agents etc.) were commercialized.