The essence and economic features of university innovation infrastructure formation

In modern conditions, universities perform research activities not only for the development of fundamental science but also for the practical use of applied research results and their integration with the regional and national economy. There is a need for innovative competencies formation aimed at the formation of innovative thinking among students and employees of higher educational institutions. Practically directed scientific research is being integrated into the educational process, and a technology transfer center is being created between the scientific and educational departments of the university. The study purpose is to analyse university innovation infrastructure concept and consider its formation economic features. The scientific novelty of the study results lies in the systematisation of approaches to defining the university innovation infrastructure concept. The concept basis is a set of mechanisms and systems ensuring the innovative university activities. The theoretical foundations of university innovation infrastructure formation and development, its elements and subsystems composition and functionality at the desk study level are analysed. In this process, the key focus is on the economic features of innovative infrastructure formation and its economic effectiveness assessment. In the study course, such methods as comparison, generalisation, comparison, abstraction, deduction, and induction were used. To achieve the study purpose and solve the tasks set, the works of J. Yuti, F. Shapiro, N.N. Pogrebnyak, N.P. Khveseni, V.V. Sokolova, A.M. Nosonov, A.V. Rumyantseva, and I.P. Mitrofanova were used.