BARRIERS INTECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OF ADVANCED DUAL-USE MATERIALS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

This effort is an attempt to assess the underpin premises of technology transfer appeared after 1991 when the Ukraine gained the independence and to highlight and evaluate the potential barriersfaced between technology supplier and recipient. After the Soviet Union has fallen apart, there was a strong increase in a number of participants in foreign economic activity. For many of them, commercial interests were much more attractive, important and understandable than the national, economic and political security of Ukraine. Under the umbrella of disappearance of many administrative mechanisms, this brought to elevation of physical volume of sales of strategic goods and advanced technologies abroad, which may pose a threat to national security, regional and global stability, and a competitiveness of domestic economy.Thus, this is the set of factors that strongly affect an efficient and proper functioning and optimization of the process of transfer of intangible materials science technologies. Consequently, a technology transfer is a process that under its umbrella involves not only a technology transfer itself but a dissemination of specific technological knowledge; acts as a rather complicated communication between supplier and recipient; stimulates a creation of new consumer values and may be repeated time after time. Thus, when implementing the process of technology transfer, specific situations may appear that depend on characteristics of the activities of transfer subjects involved, and if given that an object of transfer is a new technology each time, thus it is fair to conclude that a specific and unique approach in the process of technology transfer may not be offered, and that is precisely why an implementation of each stage of transfer requires well-founded and grounded solutions.