The paper emphasizes that development of border infrastructure according to standards and requirements of international standards is one of the major tasks of the measures taken to increase transit capacity of border areas. Therefore, the issues of border infrastructure development should be one of the priority tasks of both central and local authorities. Nowadays, although there is a range of regulative, legal and strategic documents developed to support the functioning of border infrastructure, they need improvement oriented on new requirements and European integration course of Ukraine. The paper aims to analyze regulative, legal and program documents to develop border infrastructure, reveal problem and controversial points in them and suggest recommendations regarding their elimination. Special attention is paid to analysis of the range of legal, regulative, strategic and program documents to support the development of border infrastructure. In the first place, they are the documents that regulate the activity in cross-border cooperation, spatial development and territorial planning, transport activity and transport networks functioning as well as regulative acts regarding the activity of state border service and border crossing points, etc. Among the analyzed documents are the Laws of Ukraine “On Cross-Border Cooperation”, “On General Scheme of Planning of the Territory of Ukraine”, “On Regulation of Urban Planning Activity”, “On Automobile Roads”, “On the Sources of Funding of Road Economy of Ukraine”, “On Concessions to Build and Maintain Roads”, “On Public-Private Partnership”. Moreover, a range of documents of strategic nature, which substantiate the place of border infrastructure in implementation of long-term priorities of Ukraine’s development and defines the perspectives of its modernization, is analyzed, namely 2020 State Regional Development Strategy, Concept of Creation and Functioning of National Network of International Transport Corridors in Ukraine, State Border Service Development Strategy, 2030 National Transport Strategy of Ukraine, Concept of Reforming of Transport Sector of Economy, Concept of State Targeted Law Enforcement Program “2020 Development and Reconstruction of State Border”. Program documents of border infrastructure development support are also analyzed, namely 2016-2020 State Program of Cross-Border Cooperation Development and 2018-2022State Targeted Economic Program of Public Automobile Roads Development. 

border infrastructure, border cooperation, legislative framework, transit capacity, transport network 

The article examines strategic and program tools of EU innovative policy forming and implementation. EU innovative development strategic priorities are defined. The reasons of EU lag in the intensity of innovative processes conducting from the countries (i.e. USA, Japan, North Korea and China) successful in innovative policy implementation are analyzed. Condition and tendencies of EU innovative development are outlined. In particular, the author emphasizes the fact that according to Innovation Union Scoreboard, which provides comparison of scientific and innovative activity of EU member states by compound indicator, the EU has become more innovative last years. In 28 EU member countries (EU-28) innovative index grew from 0,519 in 2007 to 0,555 in 2014. Peculiarities of innovative processes’ dynamics in EU member countries in 2007 – 2014 are analyzed. The reasons that stipulate certain positive changes in the sphere are defined. Increase of transparency and attractiveness of EU scientific research system, improvement of human capital quality and growth of intellectual assets are among them.
Strategies and Programs of EU innovative development maintenance are analyzed. Their major priorities and implementation directions are outlined. European experience of innovative activity management is generalized and systematized and major directions of EU innovative processes accomplishment are examined. The role and place of innovative cooperation in strengthening of enterprises’ innovative activity in the EU and its certain member countries are outlined.
The most efficient instruments of innovative activity stimulation in the EU are evaluated. Major advantages of 8th framework program compared to the previous ones are defined. Key principle, major objectives and strategic priorities of the program are examined. Main EU investment development maintenance directions indicated by Horizon 2020 are analyzed. The range of new positive points of the program compared to the previous 7 is emphasized. Financial maintenance of Horizon 2020 implementation is analyzed. Horizon 2020 funding budget allocations by EU economic activity priority directions is examined. The author emphasizes the constant activities monitoring in order to evaluate the level of innovative policy long-term goals achievement, define strong and weak points of its implementation and adjust innovative course on the basis of modern methods and parameters of innovative activity monitoring as the distinctive feature of EU innovative policy.
Peculiarities of innovative policy implementation in certain EU member countries are analyzed, in particular Polish innovative policy implementation features, German innovative policy key directions and implementation instruments, British key national priorities of science and technologies development. Directions of Ukrainian innovative policy improvement on the basis of European experience are defined. 

innovative policy, strategies, program maintenance, program documents, innovative activity, innovative processes 

The article focused on the fact that the main structural imbalances of the economy of Ukrainian regions are: high resource, material and energy intensity of production, excessive extensive development of primary industries, low level of innovation, the infrastructure gap, the gap between the financial sector and the real economy, with inefficient functioning of sectors, providing innovative technological development. It is also noted that in the future regresses technological structure of the Ukrainian economy, worsening the state of scientific and technical potential, reduced the share of high-tech industries and the like.
The author is defined the main reason of the existence of structural imbalances, among them noted: limited resources (material, intellectual, financial, investment, innovation); reduction of innovative production; high material and energy intensity of production; a high share of intermediate consumption in the structure of GRP, which is evidence of a slight production of products and services with a high share of GVA; low development of innovation infrastructure.
The author focuses on the assessment of trends and extent of structural changes in the economy of the regions of Ukraine by type of economic activity according to the index of GVA during 2006-2013. In particular, the estimated rate of change of the specific weight of the structural weight of the regional economy that occurred over this period of time. It is noted that the high rate was reduced such economic activities as industry, construction and finance. Regionally the most significant reduction of the mass of structural changes in the industry structure of regional economies was observed in Khmelnytsk, Sumy, Lugansk, and Zaporozhska regions; construction in most regions of Ukraine, except Donetsk and Ivano-Frankivsk; finance – in addition to Volyn, Zhytomyr, Transcarpathian, Sumy, Ternopil, Kherson, Khmelnytsky regions and Kyiv.
The dynamic processes that have occurred in the structure of the economy of Ukrainian regions for 7 years are estimated. The results show that the highest rate of structural change took place in Donetsk, Sumy, Ivano-Frankivsk, Luhansk, Zakarpatska, Ternopil, Rivne and Chernivtsi regions, while the lowest – in Kyiv, Sevastopol and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Kirovohrad and Cherkasy regions.
On the basis of the calculation of the integral coefficient of structural change the author estimated the intensity of their course. Most high-speed positive structural changes have taken place in some service industries, namely real estate transactions and trade, along with the fact that for the analyzed period in Ukraine has been some negative trends, namely the losses in industry, construction and financial activities.
The main trends are clarified and significant disparities in the economic structure of regions and orientation are identified, the vast majority of regions on the development of innovative areas of economic activity. The main problems that characterize the economies of Ukrainian regions are selected and ways to improve the structure of their economies are suggested. 

economic structure, economic activities sector, mass of structural changes, temp of structural changes, speed of structural changes, intensity of economic processes, innovation activities 

The focus of the article is drawn to the fact that economic modeling plays an important role in predicting the economic development of the regional economy. Among the indicators indicating the state of economic development we have selected the GRP. Therefore it till be used as a resulting value in the simulation of structural changes. To investigate the liaison between the resulting value (in this case GRP) and the selected factors we applied correlation and regression analysis. An econometric model of quantitative and qualitative assessment of the impact of internal and external factors on the GRP is constructed. As a results of modeling the factors are ranked in terms of their impact on the resulting indicator. The simulation results show that the greatest positive effect on GRP growth comes from increasing employment, and the least – from the volume of goods (works, services) sold. However, the two other factors (import goods and the amount of innovation expenditures) have the opposite effect on the formation of GRP and lead to its reduction. Mutual GRP and employment liaison is modeled in the context of various fields of economic activity. Calculations held show that increasing employment in the financial sector has the greatest positive impact on the growth of GRP, while in a number of other economic sectors this will lead to reduction of the GRP. In particular, the increase in the number of employed in temporary accommodation and catering, public administration and defense and in the field of information technologies and telecommunications will impede the GRP growth. Proportionality coefficient is the main indicator that most accurately reflects the dynamics and nature of structural changes on the meso-economy level. Using it to analyze the qualitative changes in species structure of the regional economy of the Western Ukraine in relation to the region in general and in relation to the structure of the national economy makes it possible to distinguish the two groups of regions, one of which is close to the quality structure of the region’s and the state economy (Lviv, Zakarpattia Chernivtsi region) and shows trends of structural stability; while the other group – appears to be more remote from the standard quality structures both, the state and the region (Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Ternopil region) and has a clear evidence of structural instability. The predicted integral coefficient of structural changes (ICSC) for the economy of Ukraine, which was calculated basing on the period 2012-2013 data, during the first period (2014) will range from 0.9% to 7.6% with an average of 3.8% and median value of 3.6%; during the second period (2015) we expect changes in the structure of 1.7% to 14.1%, average is equal to 6.8% and the median - 6.4%; and the third period (2016) will be characterized by the following changes of the ICSC: minimum will be the value of 2.5%, and maximum – 22.7%, average changes expected are of 10.9%, median value – 10.1%. All the distribution histograms achieved as a result of the simulation modeling are characterized by the left-sided asymmetry; the probability to reach the maximum values slightly exceeds 5%. Further studies in this direction should be concerned with modeling of structural processes in the composition of other indicators that characterize the dynamics and trends in socio-economic development of Ukraine, and with improvement of the parametric model that will determine the quality-biased impact of structural parameters on the dynamics of economic development, in our case the GRP growth. 

structural changes, economic structure, modeling, gross regional product, factors of influence, structural instability, coefficient of proportionality 

The article reveals the essence, purpose and goals of regional innovation policy, to its subjects and objects. The features of the formation and implementation of regional innovation policy in the context of improving the competitiveness of the regional economy are considered. Stated that the regional innovation policy is formed by the local authorities in the form of regional programmes of innovative development, which were approved by the Regional councils and which were implemented by the relevant local authorities. The attention is focused on the fact that the main goal of regional innovation policy as a factor of growth of the national economy is to ensure the conservation and enhancement of scientific and technological potential, attraction innovation, development of knowledge-intensive industries, overcoming resource cost nature of production and its technological upgrading. It is indicated that at the regional level are determined by the priorities of innovation development of the region, are developed program of innovative development, can be imposed additional tax incentives and can be used other mechanisms of influence on development and support of innovative processes in the region. The key measures for support innovation at different hierarchical levels are identified. The attention is focused on the fact that it is the regional level of management becomes crucial for the activation of innovative processes that provide targeted support for innovative enterprises and scientific institutions. The main priorities of regional economic policy are determined in this paper. Indicated that each region has its own specific, reproductive, sectoral and technological structure, its system of priorities and should rely on their own strength and resources in the implementing of this strategy. Effective regional innovation policy should be based on an objective analysis of economic situation, detailed assessment of the available resources and opportunities, focusing on realistic, achievable goals. Analysis of innovative activity of regions of Ukraine is given. The instruments of stimulate regional authorities innovative activity of industrial enterprises are defined. The main barriers of the effectiveness of implementation of regional innovation policy and the ways of overcoming of them are outlined. 

regional innovative policy, innovative development, competitiveness, regional authorities, innovative technology 

Basic concepts and draft conceptual foundations of institutional frameworks of regional structural policy, which includes the activities of the public authorities at regional and sub-regional level, aimed at achieving a balanced and effective structure of the regional economy of the state is determined. Objectives, strategic goals and priorities of regional structural policy of Ukraine and the proposed conceptual and methodological tools, the system measures selected to achieve strategic goals and priorities are outlined. The problems of institutional frameworks of regional structural policy are researched.

The main attention in the article paid to determining basic concepts and delineation of conceptual foundations of institutional frameworks of regional structural policy, formulation of proposals for monitoring implementation of structural policies, including based on the introduction of structural standards and benchmarks. Using the method of assessing structural changes were evaluated internal and external structural standards for short, medium and long term perspective by major branches of economy of Western Ukraine. According to the chosen methodology for assessing the long-term perspective is matched with three groups of highly developed countries. Because of the comparative studies of the selected structural standards and guidelines range of structural problems of the economy and its western region, proposed solutions to these problems are defined.

The main obstacles to the implementation of effective structural changes in the economy of the region and submitted proposals for their elimination are defined. In particular, the focus is primarily on the decorrupted and demonopolised institutional environment that inhibits structural changes, preserves inefficient economic structure of regions of the state. The proposals for the transformation of regional and district state administration and formation on the basis of their administrative structures of the European model. Special attention is focused on the formation mechanism of formation mechanism of the regional budget and expenditure management budgets regions; instability and imperfection of the legislation concerning the mechanism of budget resources of the region; absence of legally enforceable fiscal powers to regional authorities; inadequacies of the system of intergovernmental transfers.

Main priorities for structural transformation including the development of the tertiary (services and finance) and quaternary (information area) of regions sectors, as these sectors perform transactional function and generate the largest number of innovations that are able to qualitatively change the course of economic development are grounded. 

regional structural policy, institutional environment, college, institution, region, structural standards and guidelines, restructuring, structural adjustment, structural transformation, structural changes