East-West Scientific Co-operation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Kazimiera Prunskienė, Elmar Altvater

   Pages 1-5

3. The Mechanisms of Regional and International Co-Operation in the Spheres of Science and Technology

   • Kazimiera Prunskienė

   Pages 7-14

4. International Competitiveness and Science and Technology Transfer

   • Elmar Altvater

   Pages 15-27

5. Science and Technological Policies of the Baltic States and International Co-Operation

   • Mindaugas Stankevičius

   Pages 29-32

6. The Integration Problems of the Baltic States: Possibilities for the Formation of A Unified Technological, Economical, and Social Space

   • Borisas Melnikas

   Pages 33-51

7. Environmental Technological Policy in Lithuania and Possibilities for the Introduction of New Methods

   • Asta Lapinskiene

   Pages 53-54

8. Strategic Implications for the Interaction Between Industrial Research and Development and Science and Technology Policy: The case of the countries in transition

   • Klaus-Heinrich Standke

   Pages 55-85

9. On Economic Culture and Development with Special Regard to the Role of Science and Technology in the Process of Transformation in Centraleastern Europe

   • Arndt Hopfmann

   Pages 87-91

10. Possible Forms of Co-Operation in Energy Policies Between Western and Baltic Countries

    • Lutz Mez

    Pages 93-105

11. International Cooperation in the Social Sciences

    • Erika Schwefel

    Pages 107-118

12. Scientific and Technical Potential of the Republic of Belorus and Possibilities of Co-Operation with the Baltic and West European States

    • V. Rusakevich

    Pages 119-123

13. Utilization of the Latest Technologies for Working Out Methods of Information Warfare and its Possible Consequences

    • V. D. Nozdratchov

    Pages 125-128

14. Possible Trends of Terrorism Development Caused by Spread of Non-Fatal Weapons and Technologies of Double Application: Problems of Joint Control

    • V. D. Nozdratchov

    Pages 129-132

15. Science and Technological Policy in the Ukraine: European and Regional Aspects

    • Nykola Baltazhi

    Pages 133-139

16. Dynamics of Scientific Potential of the Republic of Belorus and the Problem of Brain Drain: Short Term and Long Term Trends

    • Leonid Zaiko

    Pages 141-144

17. Science and Technology Co-Operation: The Role of the U.S. Office of Naval Research Europe

    • Stuart J. D. Schwartzstein

    Pages 145-148

18. Back Matter

    Pages 149-154

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All former Soviet Union countries experience their past as a heavy burden. It led to the centralisation of scientific personnel, the separation of research from teaching at universities, and a concentration of certain branches of technology in different parts of the Union. This has given rise to a one-sided technology and science potential which frequently cannot be sufficiently supported due to a lack of adequate finance.
Cooperation between the Baltic States themselves is often hampered by an exaggerated sense of national identity, and international cooperation can be made difficult by linguistic problems. A critical issue is finance. The Baltic States themselves are experiencing budgetary constraints, and the West is cutting back on funding.
The analytical issues dealt with here include specific questions, such as in the sectors of energy policy, electrical equipment and electronics, and environmental considerations. The transfer of technology is also discussed, as is security: there is the possibility that science and scientific results can be obtained from the former Soviet Union at low cost by the criminal community.

• Nation
• Policy
• environment
• science and technology
• technology policy

• Lithuanian European Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania

  Kazimiera Prunskienė

• Free University, Berlin, Germany

  Elmar Altvater

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