Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration
SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY

Fundamental grounds for Ukraine’s transition to a digital economy based on the implementation of Industries 3.0; 4.0; 5.0

№ 0124U000576

Description: Financed by the state budget of Ukraine in accordance with the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated December 27, 2023 No. 1572 “On approval of the list of projects of fundamental scientific research, applied scientific research, scientific and technical (experimental) developments, the performers of which are higher education institutions and scientific institutions belonging to the sphere of management of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, which have passed competitive selection and the financing of which will begin in 2024 at the expense of the State Budget of Ukraine.”

Project start 01.01.2024

Project end 31.12.2026

The relevance of the work is due to the need to rearmament the national economy in accordance with the key areas of socio-economic progress and the needs of building a competitive economy capable of guaranteeing the country’s security in martial law and dynamic development in the post-war period.

The purpose of the work is to study the fundamental foundations and develop a scientific and methodological complex, as well as practical tools to substantiate strategies for Ukraine’s transition to a digital economy model based on the implementation of breakthrough technologies.

Tasks of the work:

  • develop a concept and tools (theoretical and methodological approaches, basic hypotheses, principles, models, methods, criterion basis, databases, calculation tools) to substantiate the strategy of transition to the digital economy model;
  • perform an analysis of problem nodes and successful practices (including foreign ones) of transition to the additive production model;
  • develop recommendations for the institutional sociologization of transformational solutions, as well as activating the potential of social self-organization and business structures of the digital economy;
  • form a system of indicators and criteria for quantitative assessment of the dynamics of the state of socio-economic and environmental systems;
  • substantiate and test the following methods: 1) assessment of the effectiveness of the transition of economic systems to additive production methods; 2) assessment of the effects of the viral nature of the spread of breakthrough technologies in economic systems; 3) justification of the tools for ensuring a breakthrough phase transition of economic systems to management based on industries 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0.

The main idea of ​​the project is the necessity and possibility of a breakthrough transition of Ukraine to a new socio-economic model of productive forces and social institutions. A hypothesis is also proposed that justifies the need and potential of the country to achieve leadership positions in specific segments of the digital economy.

Information about the leader and executors

The executors of the scientific research include representatives from among the teachers and scientists of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration of Sumy State University, as well as young researchers: students and postgraduates.

Leonid Melnyk, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head, Chief Researcher, Professor of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, Sumy State University, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7824-0678

Oleksandr Matsenko, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Responsible Executor, Senior Researcher, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, Sumy State University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1806-2811

Oleksandr Kubatko, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Executor, Senior Researcher, Head of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, Sumy State University, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6396-5772

Oleksandra Karintseva, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Executor, Senior Researcher employee, professor of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, Sumy State University, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9570-3646

Iryna Sotnyk, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Executive, Senior Researcher, Professor of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, Sumy State University, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5787-2481

Performance results.

Articles for 2024

  1. Melnyk, L., Kalinichenko, L., Rozghon, Yu., Derykolenko, O., Kovtun, O. and Tulyakov, O. Prospects of business process management based on chatbots. Problems and Perspectives in Management. 2024. № 22(2). P. 197-212. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.22(2).2024.16 (SCOPUS, Q2)
  2. Sotnyk, I., Wenjuan, D., Chortok, Y., Yevdokymov, A. & Yang, Y. Enhancing efficiency and sustainability: green energy solutions for water supply companies. Economics of System Development. 2024. 6(2). P. 53-62. URL: https://doi.org/10.32782/2707-8019/2024-2-8
  3. Kalinichenko, L., Melnyk, L., Litvinova, A., Koblianska, I., & Kubatko, O. (2024). THE AMBIVALENCE OF ETHICAL PRINCIPLES IN THE DIGITAL TRANSITION. Entrepreneurship and Innovation, (30), 14-20. https://doi.org/10.32782/2415-3583/30.2
  4. Kalinichenko, L. (2024). DIGITAL ERA: TRANSFORMATION AND CHALLENGES OF THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM “INDUSTRY 4.0” TO “INDUSTRY 5.0. Economy and Society, (61). https://doi.org/10.32782/2524-0072/2024-61-5
  5. Melnyk, L., Burlakova, I., Chortok, Yu., Khodakivska, O., & Konovalenko, I. (2024). Economic foundations for the formation of a social solidarity economy in the digital transition. International Humanitarian University Herald. Economics and Management, 59, 26–36. https://doi.org/10.32782/2413-2675/2024-59-3
  6. Melnyk, L. (2024). THE SECOND FRONT OF UKRAINE AND THE HORIZONS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY. Digital Есопоmу and Economic Security, (2 (11), 9-21. https://doi.org/10.32782/dees.11-2
  7. Melnyk, L., Voronenko, V., Rozghon, Y., Kovalov, B., & Mazin, Y. (2024). IMPACT OF INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS. Change Management and Innovation, (9), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.32782/CMI/2024-9-8
  8. Melnyk, L., Karintseva, O., Kalinichenko, L., Kharchenko, M., & Lebid, M. (2024). ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES OF UKRAINIAN ENTERPRISES DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION. Digital Economy and Economic Security, (4 (13), 19-25. https://doi.org/10.32782/dees.13-3
  9. Stepura, T., Didukh, N., Derykolenko, O., & Dehtiarova, I. (2024). DIGITAL GAPS IN THE LABOR MARKET IN THE CONDITIONS OF INDUSTRIAL CHANGES AND DIGITALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY. Mechanism of an Economic Regulation, (2 (104), 7-17. https://doi.org/10.32782/mer.2024.104.01

Articles for 2025

  1. Melnyk L., Kubatko O. and Piven O. (2025). World Science Forum: Trust in science and the sustainability challenges. Knowledge and Performance Management, 9(1), 210-213. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/kpm.09(1).2025.15
  2. Melnyk L., Vasa L., Kubatko O., Koblianska I. and Hrytsenko P. (2025). Contribution of modern industrial revolutions to securing socioeconomic systems during the war against Ukraine. Problems and Perspectives in Management, 23(2), 921-937. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.23(2).2025.67
  3. Matsenko O., Melnyk L., Skrypka Y., Dehtyarova I., Kozmenko S., Kalinichenko L. Military and economic prerequisites for transforming the energy supply of the housing sector of Ukraine based on Industry 3.0. International Journal of Global Energy Issues. 2025. 47 (1-2). C. 57-69. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJGEI.2025.143354
  4. Kalinichenko, L., Rozgon, Yu., Melnyk, L., Yarosh, O., & Zavdovieva, Yu. (2025). Freelance in the context of digital transformations: Trends, challenges and institutional foundations. Scientific Works of Interregional Academy of Personnel Management. Economic Sciences, 1(77). https://doi.org/10.32689/2523-4536/77-3
  5. Melnyk, L., Zubalii, K., Dehtiarova, I., Derykolenko, O., & Lebid, M. (2025). Management of increasing the resilience of enterprises under martial law economy conditions. International Humanitarian University Herald. Economics and Management, 62. https://doi.org/10.32782/2413-2675/2025-62-7
  6. Melnyk, L., Parkhomenko, D., Dehtiarova, I., Burlakova, I., & Zavdovieva, Yu. (2025). Investment attractiveness of green energy in Ukraine under martial law. Uzhorod National University Herald. Series: International Economic Relations and World Economy, 54. https://doi.org/10.32782/2413-9971/2025-54-15
  7. Stepura, T., Parkhomenko, D., Melnyk, L., & Filatova, S. (2025). Investment in human capital: International and regional focuses. Inclusive Economics, 1(07). https://doi.org/10.32782/inclusive_economics.7-7
  8. Melnyk, L., Dudka, M., & Dehtyarova, I. (2025). CARBON AND WATER FOOTPRINT OF LEADING TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Digital Есопоmу and Economic Security, (4 (19), 57-62. https://doi.org/10.32782/dees.19-9
  9. Sotnyk I., Voronenko V., Yu. Ya. Chen Yingyou. (2025). Financial Mechanisms and Decision-making to Support Energy Decentralization in Ukraine. Scientific Works of Interregional Academy of Personnel Management. Economic Sciences, 3(79), 103-112. https://doi.org/10.32689/2523-4536/79-11

Monographs

  1. Rozghon Y., Melnyk L., Matsenko O., Kalinichenko L., Kyrylenko M. Artificial intelligence as a catalyst of intellectual capital in digital economy. Economy, finance, management: world problems and development prospects: collective monograph / Andrushchak I. (ed.). Boston, USA : Primedia eLaunch, 2024. P. 322-328. URL: https://doi.org/10.46299/ISG.2024.MONO.ECON.1.8.1
  2. Melnyk L. Matsenko O., Holub A., Skrypka Ye. Business processes management in conditions of digital transformations. Intellectual capital is the foundation of innovative development: Economics, Management and Marketing, Education, Philology, Legal and Political Sciences, History, Art History, Medicine. Monographic series «European Science». Book 38. Part 3. 2025. P. 10-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30890/2709-2313.2025-38-03-016

Textbooks and study guides

  1. Glossary on digitalization of socio-economic systems and business processes: Textbook. (2024). L. Melnyk (Ed.). Universytetska Knyha. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/97159
  2. Management of business organization development: Textbook. (2025). O. Karintseva & L. Melnyk (Eds.). Universytetska Knyha. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/101174
  3. Sustainable development: EU experience and practice of Ukraine: a study guide / edited by Leonid Melnyk. Sumy: University book, 2025. 480 p. ISBN 978-617-521-097-0

Defended dissertations

  1. Kovalenko, Ye. V. (2025). State economic policy for ensuring energy security [Doctoral dissertation, Sumy State University]. Sumy.

Projects submitted within the framework of the research stage

  1. Melnyk L., Kubatko O., Matsenko O. et al. (2026). Collective and artificial intelligence for sustainable development in the EU: Industry 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 achievements. ERASMUS-JMO-2025-HEI-TCH-RSCH. Jean Monnet Actions in the field of Higher Education Teaching and Research.

News

Industries 4.0, 5.0 in the field of view of future bachelors

A specialised course for international Master’s students at Sumy State University on the challenges of Industry 4.0 and 5.0

Economic development in the light of Industries 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 for bachelor students in economics

Looking into the future: Author’s course for PhD students of Sumy State University on the course of Industries 3.0, 4.0, 5.0

Final lectures and discussions on the topic “Industries 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and the formation of security of socio-economic systems in conditions of war” for SNAU students

Industries 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and the formation of security of socio-economic systems in conditions of war for SNAU students