Igor Yegorov

Igor Yegorov (born June 3, 1958) is a Ukrainian economist, Sc.D. in Economics, Deputy Director of the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Until 2013 he was the Head of Department for Systemic Studies of S&T Potential at G.M. Dobrov Center for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine. He is a member of the Academic Council of Scientific and Technical Complex for Statistical Research of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.

An editorial board member of the academic journals: Science and Science of Science (Ukraine), Economy and Forecasting (Ukraine), Problems of Science (Ukraine).

A member of the dissertation council of theses defense for the degree of Doctor of Science in: G.M. Dobrov Center for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Economics); Economic Research Institute of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine (Economics).

Grants Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Center for International Science and Technology Policy, George Washington University (1995–1996). Project: Possibilities of Utilization of American Experience for Reforming Ukrainian Science. Visiting Scholar at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004). Project: Transformation of the R&D System in the U.S. and the Possibility of Application of American Experience in Ukraine.

Expert and public activity An expert of the European Commission project Enhance Innovation Strategies, Policies and Regulation in Ukraine. An expert of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the consultant (expert) of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A member of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology.

Academic contributions Dr. Igor Yegorov developed the new scientific approach to the studies of S&T and innovation potentials in the processes of social and economic development. He proposed methodological principles, methods and simulation models for analysis of the current state and the perspectives of further development of the Ukrainian scientific and technological and innovation potentials. He made a review of the dynamics of the S&T potential, including calculations of corresponding indicators of cadres of the Ukrainian science. He has also identified key problems of the future R&D development in Ukraine, and the ways and instruments for their solving.

His research on S&T and economic policy has been published in Research Policy, Science and Public Policy and Europe-Asia Studies, as well as in variety of Ukrainian and Russian journals.