On April 30, 2026, a round table discussion titled "Industrial Policy of Ukraine in the Context of Polycrisis" was held at the Institute of Industrial Economics of the NAS of Ukraine.
The purpose of the event was to discuss the issues of forming Ukraine's industrial policy amid polycrisis and global technological shifts and to develop practical recommendations for its updating based on the principles of Industry 4.0 and 5.0.
Scientists and postgraduate students from the institutes of the Economics Department of the NAS of Ukraine participated in the round table. The event was moderated by the scientific supervisor of the research, sector head, Doctor of Economics Irina Pidorycheva. The director of the Institute, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, Yulia Zaloznova, addressed the participants with a welcoming speech. She emphasized the importance of scientific understanding of state industrial policy as a strategic priority for Ukraine in the context of post-war recovery of the country.
Reports were presented by scientists of the Institute: senior researcher, sector head, Doctor of Economics Irina Pidorycheva, senior researcher, senior research fellow, Doctor of Economics Irina Petrova, leading research fellow, Doctor of Economics Nadiya Azmuk, leading research fellow, Doctor of Economics Vitaliy Omelyanenko, senior research fellow, Candidate of Economics Oleksandra Chorna, and leading research fellow, Candidate of Sociology Oksana Pankova.
Six reports covered key dimensions of the issue. The first speaker was Irina Pidorycheva, who in her report "Industrial Policy of Ukraine: Why It Is Needed and What It Should Be" substantiated why industrial policy for Ukraine is no longer a matter of choice but a strategic necessity from the perspective of economic security. She proposed a strategic vision for the national industry and defined key characteristics of state industrial policy capable of pulling Ukraine out of the peripheral trap.
The next presentation was by Oleksandra Chorna titled "Structural Problems of Ukraine's Industrial Development and Proposals for Their Overcoming," in which she outlined structural constraints on industrial development – investment-financial, technological, energy, socio-demographic – and ways to overcome them. Alongside structural constraints, institutional and security challenges are equally decisive, which can both complicate and restrain, as well as create new opportunities for the restoration and transformation of the national industry based on Industry 4.0 and 5.0 principles. This dimension was considered by Oksana Pankova in her report "Ukraine's Industry in the Spectrum of Institutional and Security Challenges."
The legal dimension of the problem was revealed by Irina Petrova. In her report "Regulatory and Legal Framework of Industrial Policy in the Context of Industry 4.0 and 5.0," she analyzed to what extent the current regulatory and legal support meets the requirements of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 and identified key gaps and priorities for its updating.
Nadiya Azmuk focused on new approaches to forming personnel policy under Industry 5.0. In her report "Adapting Personnel Policy to the Requirements of Industry 5.0: Modular Architecture Lego-bricks," she diagnosed gaps between current personnel policy regulation and the challenges of new industries and proposed an architecture for harmonizing educational legislation with the EU Skills Union based on human-centricity.
The block of reports was concluded by Vitaliy Omelyanenko with an industry case on industrial policy for the development of instrument engineering. In his report "Industrial Policy for the Development of Instrument Engineering in the Paradigm of Industry 4.0 and 5.0," he outlined trends, global experience, and tasks of industrial policy for the development of the instrument engineering sector in the context of new technological challenges.
After the reports, a substantive discussion unfolded during which participants discussed the issues of the state's institutional capacity as a subject of industrial policy, the role of business and science in its formation and implementation, and the crucial importance of restoring the industrial workforce as an indispensable condition for the structural transformation of Ukraine's economy.
The discussion involved corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine Yulia Zaloznova, senior researcher, Doctor of Economics Oleksandr Vyshnevskyi, Doctor of Economics Olha Novikova, Doctor of Economics Vyacheslav Lyashenko, Doctor of Economics Valentyna Antonyuk, senior research fellow, Doctor of Economics Olena Snihova, senior research fellow, Candidate of Economics Olha Bohutska, and postgraduate students of the Institute Maksym Kuranda and Arman Hamzyan.
Based on the results of the event, recommendations will be prepared to improve the institutional support for the formation and implementation of Ukraine's state industrial policy.
According to information from the Institute of Industrial Economics of the NAS of Ukraine