Partners
SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research (Brighton)
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW, Berlin)
Scientific Centre for Social Research (WZB, Berlin)
Reform and Opening of (Post-)Socialist Economic Systems (ROSES, Paris)
Researchers
Slavo Radosevic (SPRU), Project Coordinator
Christian von Hirschhausen (DIW)
Juergen Bitzer (DIW)
Werner Meske (WZB)
Christian Schneider (ROSES)
Xavier Richer (ROSES)
Aims and Objectives
This project had three main aims:
- To analyse, based on the available statistical information, what was happening to the science and technology (S&T) systems of the economies in transition (EIT).
- To use this information to assess on a comparative basis how the S&T systems of these countries were being restructured and how well, in this process, they were being integrated into the respective economies.
- To derive policy implications for EU and Central and Eastern European governments on issues of restructuring of S&T systems and East - West S&T re-integration.
More specifically project objectives were:
- To use the available range of S&T indicators for these countries and to analyse developments both within and between countries in the light of these indicators;
- To extend knowledge of what had been happening to industrial R&D and technological capabilities during the process of industrial restructuring and to look in particular at the degree to which there were signs of a re-integration of R&D into the industrial innovation process;
- To provide a comparative overview of the institutional transformation of S&T systems in economies in transition in order to better inform policy making at the EU level.
Project summary and conclusions
Project Publications
Conceptual Analysis
Radosevic, Slavo (1998): 'Transformation of S&T systems into systems of innovation in central and eastern Europe: the emerging patterns of recombination, path-dependency and change', SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series No 9.
Analysis based on S&T Indicators
Kozlowski, J; Radosevic, S and Ircha D (1999): 'History matters: The Inherited Disciplinary Structure of the Post-Communist Science in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and its Restructuring', Scientometrics, Vol 45, No 1, May 1999, pp137-166.
Radosevic, S and Auriol, L (1998): 'Measuring S&T activities in the post-socialist countries of CEE: conceptual and methodological issues in linking past with present', Scientometrics, Vol 42, No 3, pp 273-297.
Radosevic, S and Auriol (1998): 'Patterns of Restructuring in Research, Development and Innovation Activities in Central and Eastern European Countries: Analysis Based on S&T Indicators', Research Policy, Vol 28 No 4, 1999, 351-376.
Radosevic, S and Hotopp, H (1998): 'The product structure of Central and Eastern European trade: the emerging patterns of change and learning', SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series No 26.
Radosevic, S and Kutlaca, Dj (1998): 'Assessing the basis for "catching-up" of eastern Europe: An analysis based on US foreign patenting data', STEEP Discussion Paper No 42, SPRU. (An abridged version is available as 'Technological "Catching-up" Potential of Central and Eastern Europe: An Analysis Based on US Foreign Patenting Data', Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Vol 11, No 1, 1999, pp 95-111.)
Radosevic, S (1998): 'Patterns of innovative activities in countries of central and eastern Europe: An analysis based on comparison of innovation surveys, SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series No 35.
Institutional Transformation of S&T Systems in central and eastern Europe
Meske, Werner (WZB, Berlin): Institutional Transformation of S&T Systems in the European Economies in Transition
Meske, W; Mosoni-Fried, J, Etzkowitz, H and Nesvetailov, G (eds) (1998): Transforming Science and Technology Systems - the Endless Transition?, NATO Science Series 4: Science and Technology Policy, Vol 23, IOS Press/Ohmsha; Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington, 375pp.
Schneider, Christian (ROSES, Paris): Assessing the Impact of Transition on Industrial Research Institutes: Empirical Evidence from Polish and Czech Case Studies
Radosevic, Slavo (1999): 'Divergence or Convergence in R&D and Innovation Between "East" and "West"', in Brzezinski, H and Fritsch, M (eds): Innovation and Transformation, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp 23-49.
Industrial restructuring in central and eastern Europe
Bitzer, Jurgen and von Hirschhausen, Christian (1998): Conceptual Framework and Summary, Part I, Final Report - 'Industrial Restructuring', DIW, Berlin, September.
Bitzer, Jurgen (1997): 'The Computer Industry in East and West: Do Eastern European Countries Need a Specific Science and Technology Policy?', DIW Discussion Papers No 148, Berlin (available at http://www.diw.de).
Bitzer, Jurgen (1997): 'The Computer Software Industry in East and West: Do Eastern European Countries Need a Specific Science and Technology Policy?', DIW Discussion Papers No 149, Berlin (available at http://www.diw.de).
Bitzer, Jurgen and von Hirschhausen, Christian (1997): 'The Shipbuilding Industry in East and West: Industry Dynamics, Science and Technology Policies and Emerging Patterns of Co-operation', DIW Discussion Papers No 151, Berlin (available at http://www.diw.de).
Richet, X and Bourassa, F (1998): Restructuring of the East European Car Industry: Final Summary Report.
Charpiot-Michaud, F (1998): Restructuring of the Food-Processing Industry in Eastern Europe for International Competition: Economic Analysis with Special Reference to the Role of S&T Policy in East and West.
Muller, Jurgen (FHW, Berlin): 'Restructuring of the Telecommunications Sector in the West and the East and the Role of Science and Technology'.
Policy analysis and recommendations
Dyker, D A and Radosevic, S (1999): 'Building the knowledge-based economy in countries in transition - from concepts to policies', SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series 36.
'Policy recommendations for enhancing generation, utilisation and diffusion of knowledge in coutnries of central and eastern Europe' (recommendations are based on the results of EC DG XII - TSER-funded project 'Restructuring and reintegration of S&T systems in economies in transition' and prepared by Slavo Radosevic).
For further information on the results of this project contact: Slavo Radosevic