The article presents the study of the processes of commercialization of R&D results. It is emphasized on the urgency of activating such processes in the context of the formation of a new type of economy - the information economy. The information economy transforms both the approaches to the organization of entrepreneurial activity and the factors of competitiveness of economic entities. The prospect of changing the relationship between of higher education sectors, business enterprise sector, the government sector and the civil society sector as the elements of the Quadruple Helix model are substantiated. The authors analyze the current legislation of Ukraine regarding the commercialization of R&D results. It allowed identifying endogenous problems in technologies transfer and their further implementation into the real sector of the national economy. The classification of higher education institutions’ R&D results as objects of commercialization is singled out on the base of methods of strategic and structural-functional analysis. The conceptual approach to the formation of the economic and legal mechanism of commercialization of the researches results of higher education institutions in Ukraine are proposed; the authors identifies the typical stages of the mechanism implementation.

The article deals with the essence of investing and the evolution of views on the investment process. The essence and structure of foreign investment are determined. The position of Ukraine in the International Ratings on the level of attractiveness of the investment climate in the country is highlighted. The dynamics of inflow of foreign investments into the Ukrainian economy is shown. The volumes of attraction of direct foreign investments into the Ukrainian economy from the countries of the European Union as well as the level of export of capital from Ukraine to the countries of the Euro zone have been analyzed.

This paper is dedicated to investigation of theoretical and practical aspects of impact transnational banks have on competitive environment of emerging financial markets. It develops systematisation of structural changes in international banking activity in the context of global financial instability, and identifies basic tendencies in globalisation and transnationalism of banking activity. Mechanisms of support of international competitiveness of a national economy in the context of interaction with transnational banking capital are researched. The paper also identifies negative effects of processes of entry of transnational banking capital on the national economy.

The article analysed the current state of the Ukrainian intellectual potential with the purpose of further intensification of the relations between our country and the European Union. The dynamics of Ukrainian migrant workers of different spheres of activities was presented. The Ukrainian labour migrants by their country of residence were discussed. However, the advantages of Ukraine as the source of scientific labour force were provided in order to develop the interaction between Ukraine and the EU.

According to the widely believed, the central part in world crisis and post-crisis processes certainly belongs to a market economy. This paper deals with the main consequences of the extensive development of the management in creative economy. It’s about creative capital, that means simply put, an arsenal of creative thinkers whose ideas can be turned into new or innovative valuable products and services. Creative manager can fined employees pioneer new technologies in future it can be new industries, and innovative power economic growth. This paper deals with understanding of the need for a new, creative approach to management in modern enterprises.