INNOVATIVE ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A DRIVER OF TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

The purpose of the work is the study of the complex essence of higher education as anintegral part of the anthroposphere (technosphere); definition of the main fundamental tasks of innovativeacademic (university) entrepreneurship; studying the main types of innovations initiated by academiccapitalism in the higher education system, which can lead to innovative changes and their classification;determination of the main objects of innovation activity in the field of higher education and science andexpedient directions of further innovative development of higher education in Ukraine; studying the typesof innovations in the higher education system.The authors consider innovative transformations in the field of higher education and science asobjectively conditioned transformational changes caused by the environment of academic capitalism. Thecore of the study is academic or university entrepreneurship, based on market relations spread byacademic capitalism in the field of scientific and educational activities of higher education institutions, research institutions, and other institutions and organizations in this field. An important basis of scientificwork is the application for national conditions of the theory of triple helix Etskowitz’s innovativedevelopment of society.The scientific novelty is that the authors: studied the world experience of innovative changes in highereducation and science taking place in the environment of academic capitalism; formulated and proposedtheoretical data for new approaches in understanding the innovative transformations in the field of highereducation and science, which are economic categories and occur according to the laws of the market;proposed new approaches for further innovative reform of higher education and science in the context ofacademic capitalism. A new scientific term of “innovatics of higher education” has been put intocirculation.Provisions on the uniqueness of the essence of higher education, the main fundamental tasks ofinnovative academic (university) entrepreneurship, types of innovations initiated by academic capitalismin higher education, which can lead to innovative changes, and their classification as theoretical, andpractical significance for the development of domestic science and higher education are proposed. Alsothe main objects of innovative activity in the field of higher education and science, appropriate areas forfurther innovative development of higher education in Ukraine, as well as types of innovations in highereducation that can lead to innovative changes are identified.