| Innovation and Structural Change in Post-Socialist Countries: A Quantitative Approach 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Dyker, David A. (Editor), Radosevic, S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792359763 ISBN-13: 9780792359760 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $313.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Business & Economics | Production & Operations Management - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory |
| Dewey: 330.12 |
| LCCN: 99046156 |
| Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 4 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.82 lbs) 451 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
