У статті досліджено сучасний стан розвитку наукової сфери економіки України. Основної уваги приділено аналізу змін наукової діяльності в сфері вищої освіти. Розкрито причини негативних явищ у науці – недостатнє фінансування, скорочення обсягів наукових робіт, науково-технічного потенціалу. На цій підставі сформульовані основні напрямки подолання кризових явищ в науковій сфері України.
The article is devoted to the analysis of one of the main factors of the modern development of Ukraine - the scientific provision of the innovative character of the socio-economic development of Ukraine. The negative changes that have taken place in the scientific sector over the past 20 years have been revealed. Analysis of development of the scientific sphere data, their comparison with the data of developed countries indicate that the main reason for reducing the amount of scientific research, the number of scientific institutions, the number of scientists was a decrease in the funding of science. The main attention is paid to the analysis of scientific activity in the field of higher education, which concentrates most of the country's scientific potential. The organization of scientific work in institutions of higher education and the effectiveness of its management structures are researched. The main modern problems of the university science development are formulated, their content is disclosed and ways of overcoming the crisis phenomena in the scientific sector of higher education are formulated.
