Ensuring Sustainable Regional Development Based on Socialization of Higher Educational Institutions
Olshanska O. V.

Olshanska, Oleksandra V. (2020) “Ensuring Sustainable Regional Development Based on Socialization of Higher Educational Institutions.” The Problems of Economy 2:216–223.
https://doi.org/10.32983/2222-0712-2020-2-216-223

Section: Regional economy

UDC 332.024: 378.4

Abstract:
Higher education institutions are increasingly being transformed from establishments with traditional teaching and research functions to those playing a social role in ensuring sustainable regional development. The aim of the article is to substantiate the possibility of ensuring sustainable regional development based on socialization of higher education institutions. The study is aimed at expanding the understanding of traditional ways of ensuring sustainable regional development, taking into account the ability of higher education institutions to promote the dissemination of knowledge about sustainable development, maintain sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems and generate management decisions that affect the achievement of sustainable regional development. The carried out assessment of the state of incorporation of the Sustainable Development Goals into strategic planning documents in Ukraine made it possible to justify five reasons for the need to reflect the Sustainable Development Goals in regional strategies. A conceptual scheme of the influence of higher education institutions on the subsystems of achieving sustainable regional development is proposed, changes in the indicators of sustainable development associated with universities are analyzed. The breaking down of the higher education institutions by region by indicators of the U-Multirank 2020 ranking in the dimension of regional engagement (bachelor graduates working in the region; master graduates working in the region; student internships in the region; regional joint publications; income from regional sources; regional publications with industrial partners). It is proved that the key to sustainable regional development and harmonization of the relationship “economy-society-nature” are specialists able to take into account all aspects of the economic, social and environmental development of the region. This made it possible to highlight the priorities for the further development of the social mission of higher educational institutions.

Keywords: region, sustainable development, higher education institution, social mission, strategic planning, partnership.

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Olshanska Oleksandra V. – Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Professor, Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business, Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (2 Nemyrovycha-Danchenka Str., Kyiv, 01011, Ukraine)
Email: fie@knutd.edu.ua

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