Legal ensuring the integrity of the innovation process in the conditions of Ukraine’s approach to membership in the EU
Authors: Podrez-Riapolova Iryna 
Published: June 2024

Problem setting. In the conditions of strengthening globalization processes and a high level of competition on international, regional and national markets, innovation has acquired the status of the main advantage of any country and has become the basis for ensuring its sustainable economic development, the use of new knowledge and technologies provides an opportunity to introduce and intensify innovative activities and, as consequently, to build an effective and competitive innovation economy, therefore the question arises of building a fundamentally new national innovation system, adapted to socio-technological challenges, which should determine the competitive position of the national economy on the world stage. Ukraine’s approach to joining the EU should be accompanied by significant efforts to fulfill European integration requirements. Therefore, demonstrating the desire to meet the European level of development, it is necessary to simultaneously bring the current legislation to international legal standards and strive to ensure decent conditions for the implementation of innovative activities, despite the conditions of martial law. The implementation of innovative activities is of primary importance for renewing the state of the national economy and ensuring its development through innovation. At the same time, an integral factor of sustainable innovative development is the efficiency of the introduction of innovations and the innovation process. Analysis of recent researches and publications. Actual problems of legal support of the innovation process and its components have been studied by many scientists. S. V. Hlibko studied services that contribute to the information provision of innovative activities (business activities of innovative entities). O. V. Rozghon was conducted of the conceptual provisions regarding the justification of the essence of the category «digital platform» and its impact on the activity of the technology transfer network, and it was proved that the digital platform is an important factor that allows the introduction of innovations through the technology transfer network, a mechanism for stimulating the transfer of technologies and a certain means of digital transformation. V. A. Chubenko researched the legal nature of deep tech innovations as a new wave of innovations in the world and in the European Union and determined the main provisions of the legal regulation of these innovations in the EU. Purpose of the research is to study the topical legal issues of ensuring the integrity of the innovation process in the context of Ukraine’s approximation to EU membership. Article’s main body. An important issue is also the ability of the national ecosystem to meet modern integration processes for the gradual approximation of current legislation to EU norms, which will ensure the improvement of the competitiveness of the national economy on the basis of innovation and will enable our country to take a worthy place among the EU countries in terms of the level of innovative development. The features of the innovation process are analyzed, the main ones are sequence, focus on achieving certain results, continuity, the ability and expediency for commercialization. The considered provisions of the key current document of strategic planning in the field of development of innovative activities. The expediency of program measures regarding the need to create favorable regulatory and legal support for the activities of subjects conducting innovative activities is supported; development of innovative infrastructure; methodological and consulting support for the innovation process. Separate measures for the transition to innovative growth by increasing the funding of scientific research, revising the priority areas of science and technology development, stimulating innovative activity, legislative regulation of state support for small innovative business, and stimulating the activity of venture business were considered. Conclusions and prospects for the development. The study of current legal issues of ensuring the integrity of the innovation process in the conditions of Ukraine’s approach to EU membership allowed us to conclude that the main factors of ensuring the integrity of the innovation process should be considered to be: adequate regulatory and legal support of the innovation process, which should be of a systemic nature; ensuring the development of innovative infrastructure, including the implementation of strategic planning directions regarding financing; taking into account the dynamic nature of the innovation process, an important factor is the proper information support of the innovation process, the components of which are information technologies and information resources. It should be emphasized that the information infrastructure should ensure the formation and implementation of new information resources and appropriate access to them by users. Therefore, the main task of the process of organizing the information support of innovative activity should be the formation of innovative resources.