Innovation and Structural Change in Post-Socialist Countries | A Quantitative Approach

David A. Dyker (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 9401059136 / ISBN 13: 9789401059138

Published by Springer Nature B.V., 2012

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Innovation and Structural Change in Post-Socialist Countries | A Quantitative Approach | David A. Dyker (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | xi | Englisch | 2012 | Springer Nature B.V. | EAN 9789401059138 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: Innovation and Structural Change in Post-Socialist Countries | A Quantitative Approach
• Publisher: Springer Nature B.V.
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401059136
• ISBN 13: 9789401059138
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 160H x 26D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 742 grams
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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.