The article aims at studying the theoretical basis and developing a methodological approach for assessing the development of urban infrastructure from the point of view of the use of venture capital. The article explores the tendencies of the development of venture capital investments in the world. Particular attention is paid to comparing volumes of the formal market of venture capital investment in the EU and Ukraine. The emphasis is placed on the fact that venture capital is a way of targeted investment in innovative development and can become a catalyst for the introduction of innovative technologies. It is substantiated that science and education are reliable segments for the diffusion of innovations. The focus is on the functioning of technology parks and it is revealed that they have become the most effective organizational and economic form of integration of science and production among all other innovative structures in the world. The best practices of Ukrainian universities on the commercialization of innovative developments and technology transfer in the domestic and foreign markets are presented. The creation of an innovative educational-production cluster based on the principles of publicprivate partnership in the form of a multilateral treaty union of state authorities and economic entities without unification of deposits is proposed. The results of calculating the accumulative influence of the multiplicative effect from the development of urban infrastructure have been presented and the effectiveness of its influence on the development of the regions of Ukraine economy has been proved.

The problems of protecting equipment, structures and operators from the harmful effects of vibrations are among the most painful topics of modern mechanical engineering. In this research an original design of a friction shock absorber is presented in which the principle of operation is based on the contact interaction of a package of open shells with weakly compressible deformable filler. The proposed design is simple and technologically advanced, suitable for operation under high dynamic loads and at the same time has a compact transverse dimension. Such shock absorbers are projected to be used in the mining and oil and gas industries. A finite element model of a friction shock absorber with two contact pairs has been constructed: the first contact pair is "filler - package of open shells"; the second contact pair is "inner shell of the package - outer shell". The contacting bodies were presented as separate arrays of finite elements and the conditions of frictional interaction on the contact surfaces were set in the form of Coulomb's law. We considered the behavior of such a structurally nonlinear system under the action of a monotonic and nonmonotonic load. In the course of the study, the main operational characteristics of the shock absorber including the strength, rigidity, hysteresis characteristics and natural frequencies were determined. The possibility of adjusting the rigidity and shock-absorbing characteristics of the proposed device is discussed.

The purpose of the article is to assess the impact of the investment and innovation components on the econom-ic development of Ukraine regions using the taxonomy method. The proposed method allows determining the object state level in a general set of objects, and ordering the objects according to growth or decrease of the indicators. The article substantiates the necessity to assess the dynamics of the regional economic development level in order to identify the reserves and capacities for increasing profitability and efficiency of further activities. The integral indicator of the regions’ development level is calculated. The comparative analysis is carried out within the framework of the proposed model. The research results suggest that the proposed model ena-bles us to trace the causes of the negative phenomena occurrence in the activities of the regions, to prevent their occurrence, and to develop complex managerial influences to provide the state with a vector of positive development.

The article presents a methodological tool for analysis and evaluation of business processes of Ukrainian en-terprises. The proposed methodology is provided for the identification of “problem” areas of certain business processes by calculating average weighted, integral and generic indicators of efficiency and effectiveness. It allows to evaluate the status of both certain business processes of enterprises and their totality, and to set the priorities of management actions for their improvements. The proposed methodology is examined on the example of a specific enterprise of the construction industry. In the framework of the proposed criteria (financial-economic, resource-production, external integration, organizational), a list of indicators, taking into account the specifics of the enterprise are formed. Assessment of the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes by the specified criteria and indicators allows one to monitor the current activity of the enterprise and evaluate the effectiveness of its operations at every moment of time.

The new fully substituted (1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)acetic acids were synthesized from available precursors (1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)ethanones and 1Н-1,2,3-triazole-4-carboxylic acids, which are easily prepared by the Dimroth reaction from azides and 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds. The practical methods of homologization (the Arndt–Eistert reaction and homologization as a result of nucleophilic substitution by cyanide anion) and the Willgerodt-Kindler reaction were compared. The Willgerodt-Kindler method starting from (5-methyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)ethanones was selected as the most convenient method for the synthesis of 2-(1-aryl-5-methyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)acetic acids, which are promising building blocks for drug discovery. Additionally, (1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)ethanones were studied for the synthesis of alcohols, amines and in the Johnson–Corey–Chaykovsky reaction.

Current financial statements are a comprehensive description of the enterprise, which characterize not only their financial and property status, but also the risks and prospects that allows making a comprehensive picture of the market activities. The research paper deals with the study of the essence and the role of financial statements in the process of enterprise management. The objective of this research paper is to establish the necessary content and features of financial statements that would enable to fully meet the needs of managerial staff, while re-maining economical, understandable and sufficient in terms of the content. The authors, through the analysis of the works of recognized scholars, investigated the main approaches to the definition of financial statements, which could allow us to define it as a set of indicators, representing generalized accounting data in the form that fully meets the information needs of the users for the process of managing economic activities. In the process of studying the composition of financial statements, their types are identified, and as a result - their role in the management of the enterprise are determined. The authors present their own vision of the essence of high-quality accounting information and its main characteristics, which can serve as content guidelines when compiling descriptive, non-financial and text parts of financial statements. The proposed approach allows formulating financial statements from the point of view of presentation of our own business on the best side, and in compliance with the regulatory and legal principles and requirements.

The relevance of using the provisions of the fuzzy logic theory in assessing the readiness of the enterprise to change is substantiated. This made it possible to objectively assess the current state of the enterprise, using the nonlinear principles of forming conclusions, to simulate the experts' reflections on the level of enterprise readiness to change. It is proposed to use the McKinsey 7S model in the process of structuring the enterprise's internal environment. On the basis of this model, a fuzzy-multiplier model for evaluating the enterprise's readiness for changes, is constructed, which is presented in the form of a hierarchical relationship between the input variables, groups of input variables; integral characteristics of the elements of the enterprise that characterize its activities, in particular: strategy, structure, systems, style/culture, staff, skills, common values and output variable and they characterize the integral indicators of enterprise readiness for changes. Questionnaires are developed and a survey of gas transportation company staff is conducted on readiness for changes. The result of the expert opinions elaboration is received on the basis of the following methods application; namely statistical processing of expert opinions; the method of pairwise comparisons and the method of fuzzy clusterization. The functions of all parameters membership of the constructed system are obtained. On the basis of the averaged membership functions of input and output parameter terms, the correspondence between membership functions and control rules according to Zadeh is created and the structure of the Mamdani type in the MATLAB system is synthesized. As a result, the assessment of the gas transportation enterprises readiness level to change is obtained. It is substantiated that the obtained results are considered as the basis for further effective decision making in order to ensure the development in the conditions of the instability of the functioning environment.

The article aims at finding ways to intensify the innovation activity of the Ukrainian economy, determine the role of university education in the formation and development of innovation infrastructure. It is substantiated that science and education are a reliable segment for the diffusion of innovations. The best practices of Ukrainian universities on the commercialization of innovative developments and technology transfer in the domestic and foreign markets are presented. The article analyzes the main indicators of the development of innovation activity in Ukraine as well as the dynamics of the development of university education. Particular attention is paid to the role of state classical universities in maintaining innovation development of the state and its regions. It is determined that in modern conditions, universities become integrators, participants, intermediaries, catalysts of communications and cooperation of educational and scientific structures with production, cultural institutions and regional authorities. It was investigated that on the basis of universities, 20 scientific parks have been created and are successfully functioning in Ukraine. The present innovative educational and production cluster of public-private partnership is presented. The scheme of management of it is offered. The results of calculating the multiplicative effect from the development of innovation infrastructure, which will be created as a result of the functioning of the educational-production cluster, are presented. The effectiveness of its influence on the development of the region's economy is proved.

The main trends of the development of the world postal communication market are examined. Com-parative analogies of mail marketing are conducted including in Arab and ex-USSR countries. The growing gaps between the development of the real economy and e-commerce in developing countries are confirmed and some basic directions for development of mail business are determined. The marketing strategies of postal operators are analyzed and the possible options for their adjustment are proposed. Mail services are in demand in a modern society and consequently postal operators should be constantly improved. The world has developed a set of rules for international postal items and recommendations for conducting mail business for developing countries. The purpose of the study is to clarify the marketing concept for postal operators in developing countries in modern conditions. The result of the study identifies the main trends for the development of the postal communication market in the world, namely: direct mail services, financial sector services and logistics. On the basis of the development of modern postal operators, e-entrepreneurship is actively developing, which creates the prerequisites for creating fundamentally new types of structures that combine the characteristics of a financial institution, a post office, an entrepreneurial and logistics center. Comparative analogies of mail marketing are conducted, which allowed the development of recommendations for adjusting marketing strategies in developing countries.

The research paper deals with the formation of new scientific solutions regarding the assessment of the impact of stimulating innovation activity on ensuring the strategic development of enterprises in the motor transport sector of transport industries in key countries of the post-Soviet economic space (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan). The study reveals the relationship between the strategic development of a motor transport enterprise and its innovative activity, where the latter is the tool for such development. An assessment of the development of the transport industry and its motor transport sector in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan indicates that there is a crisis both in the industry and in the sector, and that there is a need to improve the competitiveness of transport enterprises, especially given the growing influence of motor transport on national economies under research. It is proved that the effective functioning of road transport enterprises in domestic and foreign service markets is possible only by ensuring their own strategic development, which is based on increasing innovation activity, which requires the use of appropriate incentives. Significant prob-lems of stimulating innovative activity at Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, and Kazakhstan motor transport enterprises have been revealed, and ways of solving the identified problems have been de-veloped, taking into account the use of mathematical tools for evaluating the developed improvements.