Overview
- Editors:
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David A. Dyker
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School of European Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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Slavo Radosevic
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SPRU, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Technical Change and Innovation: Innovation Surveys
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- Leonid Gokhberg, Irina Kuznetsova
Pages 291-305
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Trade, Technology and Structural Change
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Front Matter
Pages 331-331
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- Slavo Radosevic, Keith Pavitt
Pages 333-337
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Measuring the Rate of Transformation of Technological and Human Resources in Russia
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Front Matter
Pages 409-409
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- Fred D. Gault, Wendy Hansen
Pages 411-417
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Back Matter
Pages 447-451
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of European Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
David A. Dyker
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SPRU, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Slavo Radosevic