Under Resolution No. 5002-IX of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, dated 17 September 2026, “On Awarding the Borys Paton Scholarships of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in 2026”, Olha Vovk, Professor at the Department of Economic Cybernetics of the Faculty of Management and Marketing, has been awarded grant funding for research. Each year, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine awards up to 50 scholarships to young researchers to support research in priority areas of science and technology development.
Olha Vovk is Doctor of Economics, Professor, and Deputy Dean for Research at the Faculty of Management and Marketing. Olha Mykolaivna has been working at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute since 2023. Her professional activities are aimed at expanding the university’s educational opportunities. As the academic coordinator of the interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree programme in Digital Economics and Management, Olha Vovk is working on the implementation of the international TANDEM-UA-DE project under the DAAD programme. During her time at the university, the researcher has also contributed to its research achievements. As Deputy Chair of the University Council of Young Scientists, she focuses on supporting research initiatives, fostering young researchers’ motivation, and disseminating the team’s research findings. In addition, Olha Mykolaivna works to ensure the quality of academic publications, serving as the technical editor of the professional journal Economic Bulletin of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.”
A research project entitled “Transmission Models of Digitalisation and Neo-Industrial Recovery of Innovation Infrastructure” is already being carried out at the university with the scholarship recipient’s participation. The project is funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The scholarship recipient’s research achievements have been recognised with the President of Ukraine’s Award and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Scholarship for Young Scientists. She has also received the M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Economics for her monograph Economic Security and the Restoration of Ukraine’s Competitiveness, as well as a scholarship awarded on the basis of her ranking in the National Researcher System. To date, the professor’s academic portfolio includes nine monographs (one of them single-authored), more than 190 research publications, and 15 textbooks and teaching manuals.
The research project entitled “Forecasting Security and Competitive Challenges to the Innovative Development of Ukraine’s Infrastructure Sector,” for which Olha Vovk was awarded the Borys Paton Scholarship of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, addresses a key research objective: to substantiate the theoretical and applied foundations of innovative development in the economy’s infrastructure sector by advancing forecasting and analytical tools for studying how security and competitive challenges affect the effectiveness of wartime and post-war recovery. The project has already established a substantial theoretical foundation, drawing on the author’s many years of research into enterprise modernisation, innovative development, and economic security. The planned research will further develop the theoretical and applied foundations for the innovative development of enterprises in the infrastructure sector, with a focus on strengthening their economic security and competitiveness. It will also substantiate methodological tools for forecasting innovation capacity, taking into account wartime losses and the needs of national economic infrastructure recovery, and develop a conceptual framework for designing strategic directions for innovative development in the competitive environment of global markets.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Scholarship is further evidence that research conducted at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute can help shape the country’s future. Olha Vovk’s academic and educational work exemplifies how contemporary economic research can help Ukraine not only recover what has been lost but also build a new model of sustainable, innovative, and competitive development.