INNOVATIVE INVESTMENT IN WAR CONDITIONS: LEGAL SUPPORT AREA

Abstract

The article aims to propose legal directions for supporting innovative investment in the military-industrial complex and other sectors and spheres of the Ukrainian economy using the experience of the EU, historical-cultural and economic paradigms. The methodology involves the use of a complex of classical and special legal methods of scientific knowledge. The goal of the study was achieved through the use of methods of scientific knowledge, in particular: analytical-synthetic, comparative-legal, historical-legal, comparative method, and others. Results: the advantages of innovative investment compared to classical investment in the form of rapid accumulation of advantages in the arms market and in the economy as a whole are indicated. Historical examples are given. It is shown that, thanks to historical and cultural traditions, Ukrainian researchers have already achieved significant progress in designing the latest absolutely unique types and technologies of weapons, which allow them to fight on equal terms with a much more numerous enemy. The experience of EU member states has revealed the prospects for a close connection between science, education, financing and production. Such cooperation can be particularly effective within associations of large business entities. The creation of such associations, in particular in the organizational and legal form of consortiums, is proposed, especially with the participation of business entities from Ukraine's partner states, is proposed. The conclusions from the research of the Nobel laureates in economics 2025 (in particular F. Aghion) are used, according to which the stimulating role of the state should be proportional to the innovative activity of the company. The conclusion is made about the need to include norms on stimulating innovative activity in the legislation of Ukraine, taking into account the EU acquis. Scientific novelty lies in the proposal to link the size of state preferences for researchers and manufacturers of innovative products with the degree of innovativeness of a certain product, work, service, activity, technology, process, etc. based on compliance with criteria. End users of the results of innovative activity, primarily from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the military-industrial complex, should be involved in the development of such criteria and determining the degree of compliance with them by certain participants in innovative activity. The need for further analysis of the EU acquis and the implementation of its provisions towards the formation of a single EU digital market, determining Ukraine's place in it, protecting the legitimate rights of all participants in the digital economy, etc. is indicated. The practical significance lies in the possibility of normative implementation of the proposals made in favor of the development of innovative investment in wartime conditions.