| Name of the unit | Head of department | Research directions |
| Department of Market Mechanisms and Structures | Acting Head of Dept., Cand. Econ. Sci., Assoc. Prof. K.Yu. Sokoliuk | Theoretical problems and the development of scientific and practical recommendations for the development of market relations and the formation of market technologies for regulating economic systems |
| Department of the Transport Services Market | Dr. Econ. Sci., Prof. N.L. Shlafman | Scientific support for the effective functioning of the transport services market and the use of the country’s transit potential |
| Department of Regional Economic Systems Development | Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, Dr. Econ. Sci., Prof. B.V. Burkynskyi | Theoretical and applied aspects of increasing the socio-economic effectiveness of investment and innovation activity in the regions of the Ukrainian Black Sea coast |
| Department of Economic and Ecological Problems of Coastal Regions | Dr. Econ. Sci., Prof. O.A. Yermakova | Development of the methodology for the economic use and the increase of the economic and ecological efficiency of the natural-resource potential of coastal regions |
| Department of Entrepreneurship Development | Dr. Econ. Sci., Prof. T.V. Umanets | Theory and methodology of entrepreneurship development, increasing its efficiency under the conditions of economic modernisation, and its impact on the sustainable socio-economic development of the state and its regions |
| Department of Economic Regulation of Nature Use | Dr. Econ. Sci., Assoc. Prof. M.M. Petrushenko | Theoretical problems and economic instruments for the management of nature use |
| Department of Integration of Science, Education and Business | Dr. Econ. Sci., Prof. O.Ye. Rubel | Development of the fundamental and applied principles of integrating science, education and business; the development of “open innovation” in light of cross-sectoral innovation interactions within the innovation ecosystem (taking into account its research, educational, business, administrative and environmental components); and the development of mechanisms for the transfer of innovations and technologies and the rebuilding of innovation potential. |