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Performance and prospects of venture funding in Ukraine are analyzed. Relevant data for Russia is given for comparison purposes. Statistics of venture-related activities in Ukraine are given, which show that in spite of positive tendencies, Ukrainian venture capital still gives preferences to investment projects having little common with high tech industries. Results of expert interviews are given,...
Comparative analysis of key statistical indicators on science and technology performance in Ukraine and Russia in the post-Soviet period is made, with emphasis on the evolution of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Similar and distinctive features in the evolution of the two national science & technology systems and the two national academies...
(Tirle in Russian - 'Mezhdunarodnye nauchnye svyazi AN USSR s nauchnymi uchrezhdeniyami i tsentrami stran s vysokim nauchno-tekhnicheskim potentsialom (70-ye gody XX st.)'). In 70s of 20th C. the Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR made intensive efforts to set up international scientific relations, in line with the state S&T cooperation plans approved by the Academy authorities. Main forms of international...
The performance of Russia in the information society related field is considered through analyzing the position of Russia in information & communication technologies (ICT), computing devices exports, and the main trend in the national science. While the activity in the ICT field has been expanding since the beginning of 2000s, the main trend of the Russian science can be described as archaic and...
According to historians of botany, history of botanic research in a natural or administrative region is linked to the history of research of its flora, and, accordingly, dendroflora. On the basis of this statement, several methods and approaches are proposed for comparative historical studies of the dendrological field. Specifics of dendrofloristics as a mainstream dendrology field are outlined by...
Short biographic account of scientist-encyclopaedist R. J. Boskovic (1711-1787) is given. He is the author of many works, but 'Theory of Natural Philosophy' (Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis) is the main work of him. Recognition of primary simple elements makes it common with the theory of Leibniz, whereas the idea about central forces depending on the distance makes it common with the theory of Newton...
Changes in the personnel component of the Ukrainian science system are studied over the period of 2002-2008, by use of relevant statistical data on Ukraine, and comparisons with analogous data on Russia and several other post-socialist countries. Study of the Ukrainian personnel is made by age category (younger than 29; 31-40; 41-50; 51-60; 61-9; older than 70), by age category of researchers with...
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