Improvement of intellectual property management in Ukraine

Keywords: the European Union, innovative development, intellectual property, commercialutilization, legal governance, management, digital economics In the below article, the intellectual property management is considered asone of the strategic goals of intellectual property development in Ukraine. The articleemphasized the intellectual property and efficient copyrights protection as the basic pillarfor the innovative digital economics of the country.The triggers are defined which started the full-range reform of the intellectual propertyarea development in Ukraine since 2016. The goals were: 1) implementation of theupdated particular legislation for the intellectual property area in 2019-2020, whichadopted the provisions of the Association Agreement with EU along with relevant Europeanstandards for the area; 2) roll-out of the institutional reform resulting in establishmentof the lawful ground for the national governing body for intellectual property supervision.The approaches to the economics theory, governing are analyzed along with nationallegislation provisions as for term «intellectual property management» and strategic directionsfor the intellectual property area development. It gives grounds that term «intellectualproperty management» is to be used not only on organizations and enterpriseslevel as it is proposed for years by scientific works, but also at much wider scale — at economicsareas and even national economics level. Considering the strategic planning andits practical implementation within short and long term prospective, the intellectualproperty management is proposed to consider at institutional level through the means ofthe tasks and functions setting up with their particular realization.The problems are defined which hinder the intellectual property managementprocesses as well as the factors of external and inhouse affecting the process. The principlesfor intellectual property management based on the science researches, are proposedto exercise upon the subject both at macroeconomics and enterprise level, taking into accounttheir specifics.The pace of Ukraine as the Eastern partnership country, towards the integration tothe innovative digital environment of EU, is being analyzed. The further steps are proposedaimed at intellectual property management enhancement on the institutional level.

Maksāšanas līdzeklis un dati, kas dod iespēju nelikumīgi izmantot maksāšanas līdzekli, kā noziedzīga nodarījuma priekšmets

Taking into account the rapid development of digital economics, the article reviews understanding of the concepts “means of payment” and “data enabling the illegal use of a payment instrument”. In the Criminal Law, Section 193, paragraph two, and Section 193,1 paragraphs one and two legislator has determined liability for activities with different types of objects, understanding of which is a precondition for correct qualification of criminal offence. Admittedly, there is no uniform understanding of these issues in court practice. The aim of the article is to discuss these two objects of criminal offence in order to bring clarity in their under­standing and to make suggestions for distinguishing these two criminal offences.

Centenary jubilee of Donetsk National Technical University (DonNTU)

In May of 2021 Donetsk National Technical University celebrates 100-years anniversary. Facts of its history of foundation, formation and development presented. The role of DonNTU in training of highly qualified professionals not only for Donbass, but for the whole Soviet Union, Russia and for near 100 world countries, as well as in development of science in the region shown. It was noted that at present DonNTU is a center of training of highly qualified professionals not only in traditional for industrial Donbass industries (mining, metallurgy, machine building, chemistry and others), but also in all the directions of informationcomputer technologies, extremely important for formation of digital economics.

THE NATURE OF SHADOW DIGITAL ECONOMICS

The purpose of this paper is to analyze, discuss, and develop a study of world universal digitalization processes as well as challenges and threats, and develop an approach to defining the shadow digital economy. Along with huge innovative achievements, digitalization processes are accompanied by the formation of a digital economy and the growth of illegal activities. Digital economy implies total globalization, creates an ultra-high competitive environment, provides a new quality of life, business, and public services. At the same time, many traditional areas of activity are being destroyed. In addition to understandable achievements, it is necessary to analyze new obvious and hidden threats that digitalization processes carry. The analysis shows the causes and factors of the emergence and functioning of the new segment in the shadow economy. The approaches to the definition of this category and its content are discussed. A classification of criminal-oriented products and services that are the basis of a highly profitable illegal business has been proposed. The problem of confrontation with Shadow Digital Economics acquires particular urgency in the face of the emergence of new overt and hidden threats to the individuals, society, and the state. The main components of the digitalization process are analyzed. Conclusions are drawn about the development of shadow digitalization processes and the formation of a shadow digital economy, which is directly related to cybersecurity.