Innovative hubs as a platform of economic growth: foreign experience and new opportunities for Ukraine

Abstract

General features of modern innovative clusters in the world are described in the article. The essence of innovative hub is found and main directions of its activity at the present stage of economic development are considered. A number of institutions that promote innovative development of hubs are discovered. The place and the role of modern hub-studios, hub-centers, hub-clusters and hub-associations in countries of Western Europe are generalized. Key success factors of the activity of network of centers support for innovations and entrepreneurship (iHUB) in Ukraine are investigated, and its main international partners, objectives and directions of activity are found. Prospects of the creating of border clusters in Ukraine are considered and substantiated. The activity of innovative building cluster in Poltava region is researched and its participants, key objectives and constraints of development are found.