The Approach to Financing Higher Education in Ukraine Using the Quadruple Helix Conception

• Main Author: Kholiavko Natalia I.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Research Centre of Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine 2019-01-01
• Series: Bìznes Inform
• Subjects: higher education system; sources of financing; commercialization; integrated approach; Quadruple Helix conception; information economy; innovations
• Online Access: http://www.business-inform.net/export_pdf/business-inform-2019-1_0-pages-125_131.pdf

The article is aimed at studying the theoretical-methodical and applied aspects of formation of an integrated approach to financing the higher education system of Ukraine through the prism of the Quadruple Helix model. The specificity of interaction of subjects of the Quadruple Helix model is analyzed (sectors: higher education, entrepreneurship, the State, and public). The main planes of their interaction are allocated: personnel, science, innovations, management, social plane, with description of the character of cooperation of subjects according to each plane; perspective sources for obtaining synergistic effects are identified. The emphasis is placed on defining the potential sources of formation of financial resources of higher education institutions in the context of the subjects’ interaction planes of the Quadruple Helix model. On the basis of harmonization of interests of stakeholders, the author proposes an integrated approach to financing of higher education system. The perspective of implementation of the developed approach is substantiated in view of the current conditions of resource restrictions and in accordance with modern tendencies of formation of information economy. Prospects for further research are to develop the conceptual bases for the formation of a comprehensive model of competitiveness of the national higher education system, with inclusion in its structure of the presented integrated approach to financing.