This title was first published in 2000: Issues such as globalization and the fight against
joblessness as well as the growth dynamics of economies in general have been linked with …

This chapter analyses the recent institutional changes in Hungary from the point of view of
science and technology (S and T) policy via pulling together some theoretical developments …

The political changes at the turn of the eighties and nineties in Hungary did not lack any
political, economic, and social (and even scientific) precedents. Although the processes later …

The revolutionary changes that have taken place in Eastern and Central Europe were
triggered by a deep socio-economic and political crisis—primarily caused by the fact that …

1. INTRODUCTION Traditionally science and technology policies have been concerned
mainly with knowledge generation, and with how to strengthen the national or global …

This contribution analyses recent developments in science and technology policy in two
countries‐Japan and Switzerland‐that are often assumed to be of very different traditions …

The technological “time warp” in which Hungary, like other Central and Eastern European
countries, has found itself since the 1950s is at an end. This article concentrates on the …

Abstract Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Turkey once were inward-looking economies in which a
lack of competition suppressed demand for improved technology. With the exception of the …

I was asked recently to prepare an independent background report on the subject of priority
assessment in science and technology policy for the Australian Science and Technology …

It was the Second World War that led to the greatest surge of government funding for R&D
and to the emergence of science and technology policy (Salomon, 1977, Freeman and …