Innovation and Structural Change in Post-Socialist Countries (NATO SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP SUB-SERIES: 4: Science and Technology Policy Volume 20)

ISBN 10: 0792359763 / ISBN 13: 9780792359760

Published by Springer, 1999

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• Title: Innovation and Structural Change in Post-Socialist Countries (NATO SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP SUB-SERIES: 4: Science and Technology Policy Volume 20)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792359763
• ISBN 13: 9780792359760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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This book uses a range of S&T and structural indicators to analyse the transfonnation process, in particular the transfonnation of science, technology and industry, in the fonner communist countries. The book originates from a sense of the tremendous need for quantitative indicators for assessing trends and perfonnance in the post-socialist economies. S&T systems in the region have passed through the first phase of rapid deterioration, or as it is called by some analysts 'implosion'. After ten years of transfonnation we are witnessing a process of increasing differentiation of these countries in tenns of general patterns of growth and structural change, as well as specific lines of restructuring in their S&T systems. The question of sources of growth - or indeed of stagnation - is an increasingly urgent one, from both the policy and academic perspectives. In that context there is a pressing need for in-depth assessment of restructuring patterns in science, technology and industry in the region, as a basis for understanding how restructuring in S&T is linked to industrial restructuring, and to general economic and social transfonnation. As the contributions to this volume show, there is now a critical mass of quantitative data across the post-socialist countries which deserves to be studied more thoroughly in a comparative manner. The changes of the last ten years have produced varying patterns of adjustment which are now clearly visible in S&T and structural indicators.