The publication of this Handbook was supported by the Russian Federation

A.V. Kucher and O.V. Anisimova (Ukraine)
Innovation and investment to support land amelioration is a range of  measures that involves 
the use of  means, mechanisms, methods, tools and techniques of  innovation and investment 
management aimed at mobilizing and encouraging further investment and innovation in the areas 
of  organization, technology, agrochemistry and nature conservation for increasing the efficient use 
and management of  ameliorated lands.
Conceptually, the innovation policy should be combined with the investment policy to provide a 
simultaneous promotion of  investments and innovations, as the former serves as a basis for the 
latter. At the same time, innovation incentives stimulate further demand for investments. The 
integration of  innovation and investment activities and the attraction of  additional finance to the 
development of  innovative technologies should be considered as the most important aspect in the 
efficient and sustainable development of  amelioration practices.
State control over innovation and investment policies in the area of  soil amelioration in Ukraine 
involves the following priority measures [9]:
•  the creation of  an infrastructure of  an innovations market and the development of  
technology transfer systems, in particular, by focusing on the development of  innovations 
in the management of  financial and material resources by different organizations such as 
science parks and scientific research institutes in cooperation with small and medium-sized 
enterprises under business incubation programmes and a coherent innovation policy based 
on the principles of  planning and forecasting innovations;
•  the  implementation  of   an  organizational-economical  mechanism  designed  specifically 
for supporting new ecological ideas, providing a demand for innovations in the areas of  
amelioration and the greening of  the ameliorated land use systems;

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•  the development of  a system of  economic incentives in soil conservation and innovation 
enterprises (tax deductions for entrepreneurs that bring patent licenses for ecological 
innovations in the area of  amelioration and implemented soil protection technologies);
•  the provision of  tax deductions for enterprises under various forms of  ownership and 
management, where they invest their own capital into scientific research and development of  
ecological innovations in the area of  land amelioration;
•  the creation of  mechanisms of  favourable loans to encourage practical applications of  
innovations in the area of  land amelioration, e.g., by concessional loans to enterprises that 
implement innovative amelioration projects;
•  the establishment of  a credit insurance fund for innovative developments, the provision of  the 
state insurance for risks in innovation development and the creation of  special innovation-
investment banks to concentrate capital in the area of  amelioration;
•  the improvement of  an organizational-economic mechanism for the interaction between the 
recipients of  direct foreign investments to encourage non-fiscal incentives such as economic 
liberalization in the agricultural sphere and strengthening the institutional support system, in