STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE PERSONNEL COMPONENT OF THE RESEARHC POTENTIAL OF UKRAINE (1995-2009) (Structurni zminy kadrovoyi skladovoyi naukovoho potentsialu Ukrayiny (1995-2009))

The analysis covers the dynamics of the number of specialists performing R&D by scientific field and in selected disciplines, against the dynamics of R&D financing in Ukraine over the past 14 years. It's shown that apart from the strong (more than thrice) reduction in the total number, this period marked quite essential change in the structure of the R&D personnel in Ukraine. Social sciences proved to be the most demanded by the State, in view of the essential growth in absolute numbers of their researchers and their structural share. A positive dynamics could be secured by natural sciences, as the share of their researchers grew from 19% to 37%. However, it wouldn't be fair to say now that the Ukrainian science features prevalence of researchers in the engineering profile: while in 1995 they accounted for 72% of the total amount of researchers, in 2009 their share fell to 47%. The situation in humanities, although being quite alarming, seems to be somewhat less dramatic. Regarding the qualification structuring, the share of doctors of science has been up, in parallel with quite rapidly reducing share of candidates of sciences. The conclusion is made about irrelevance of the established qualitative and structural tendency to the innovation objectives, which requires comprehensive analysis and proper response from the State.