Commercialization of Research and Education as a Factor of Leadership in the Global Educational Space

Under the conditions of economic crisis, the development of the national economy becomes an urgent and essential problem. One of the ways how to achieve it is the improvement of the mechanisms for obtaining the leadership positions for higher education institutions in the field of commercialization of research and educational results. The purpose of the article was to study the scientific and applied principles of the functioning of the models of commercialization of research results by the institutions of higher education based on the example of Ukraine. We employ theoretical generalization and comparison of scientists’ views in order to determine the content of the commercialization of research results. Moreover, we apply systematic analysis for analyzing the important tasks for the implementation of the inclusive education of people with special educational needs and the experience of the functioning of the Ukrainian universities that take leadership positions on the commercialization of scientific research. We identify the problems of commercialization of domestic higher education institutions. In addition, we substantiate the prospects of changing the relationships between higher education sectors, business enterprise sectors, the government sector, and the civil society sector as the elements of the Quadruple Helix model. Based on the usage of strategic and structural–functional analysis methods, we formulate the guidelines for providing leadership positions of higher education institutions in the context of commercialization of scientific research by justifying the possible ways of commercialization and the stages of their implementation. Furthermore, we draw an approach to the formation of an integrated model of commercialization of research results (from foresight to market) which allows to increase the perspective of innovative developments and leadership positions in the global educational space.