There are too many bureaucratic processes in Ukraine around the implementation of new scientific ideas that can bring money to the budget, said the head of the Darnitsa Group board of directors Dmytro Shymkiv in an interview with the chief editor of the NV project Vitaly Sych on radio Novoye Vremya.
“If we are talking about fundamental research, universities are usually the hubs for those. And for a scientist who created a certain idea on the basis of a university there are legal obstacles that limit his ability to commercialize the idea,” he said.
Among the obstacles the young scientists face while doing research, Dmytro Shymkiv named a shortage of money, issues with copyright protection, an extremely regulated scientific environment, as well as the regress in the status of scientists in society, which came about after the collapse of the USSR.
“If earlier scientists were respected people, now, unfortunately, the associate professors and graduate students are not always treated respectfully. There are cases of plagiarism, corruption in the defense of doctoral dissertations.
We see that many “scientists” are only on paper. These are people who have not created anything but have the appropriate title. And a young scientist must make his way through all this “dirt”,” the expert added.
Shymkiv is sure that the business could invest in research centers, provided the state creates suitable conditions for this. He noted that in developed countries businesses normally entail a tax credit as a result of financing science, but in Ukraine, such an incentive is not possible.
“If we talk about technoparks, incubators, the state should enable businesses to finance them, realizing that this is how we finance science. Today we are offered to make such investments only from profit. While from the profit we already are financing culture, science, an initiative of corporate and social responsibility,” – Dmytro Shymkiv listed.