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[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - INDICSER (Indicators for evaluating international performance in service sectors)
The main objective of the INDICSER project was to provide information regarding the performance of service sectors, filling a gap in the existing knowledge base. The project had three strands – measurement and conceptual issues, developing indicators for evaluating service...
Programme: FP7-SSH
Record Number: 140869
Last updated on: 2014-07-08
[REPORT SUMMARY] S&T/R&D systems and growth in the CEECs
The period of post-socialist transformation of the CEE continues to be characterised by a large gap between a high level of R&D potential and labour force skills on the one hand, and results, in terms of growth and restructuring, on the other. During this period, all CEECs hav...
Programme: FP4-TSER
Record Number: 34162
Last updated on: 2004-09-06
[REPORT SUMMARY] The institutional transformation of S&T systems in CEE
The crucial weakness of the S&T systems, or narrow national systems of innovation (NSI), in the CEECs was their failure to develop R&D at the enterprise level. In the current stage of post-socialist transformation, industrial restructuring has not directly involved domestic ...
Programme: FP4-TSER
Record Number: 34163
Last updated on: 2004-09-06
[REPORT SUMMARY] Restructuring and reintegration of science and technology systems in economies in transition: Policy implications
The experience of CEE suggests a very weak synergy between transition policies in the narrow, macro-economic sense and the required shift towards an economy based on innovation and knowledge. There is a clear need to better integrate structural and transition policies to induc...
Programme: FP4-TSER
Record Number: 34165
Last updated on: 2004-09-06
[REPORT SUMMARY] Restructuring of production and technology networks in CEE
Given the collapse of S&T systems in CEE countries, the internationalisation of production and sales networks in CEE became an important, if not the most important, factor in the emergence of new enterprise and innovation networks. National S&T systems did not play an importan...
Programme: FP4-TSER
Record Number: 34164
Last updated on: 2004-09-06
[REPORT SUMMARY] Education and training: New job skill needs and the low-skilled
Main findings of the project are the following:
- The ISCED classification adopted:
Since the aim of the project was to establish the extent of low skills in a range of European countries, we first needed to agree on a definition, which could serve the needs of our research....
Programme: FP4-TSER
Record Number: 34482
Last updated on: 2004-09-06
[REPORT SUMMARY] Access in foreign technology (by Greece, Turkey, Hungary and Mexico)
This chapter analyses the various forms of international technology inflows to the four sample countries in their process of development or transition to a fully-fledged market economy. The paper considers internalised forms of technology transfer, such as foreign direct inv...
Programme: FP4-TSER
Record Number: 34167
Last updated on: 2004-09-06
[REPORT SUMMARY] Science and technology policies in developing and transitions countries: Reform and technological co-operation with Europe
The policy implications of the findings of the project include:
- It is important for EU programmes to take a more positive and flexible stand on promoting domestic S&T. It would be helpful to launch programmes that specifically target such institutions and linkages.
- Bureau...
Programme: FP4-TSER
Record Number: 34169
Last updated on: 2004-09-06
[REPORT SUMMARY] Imports of machines and transfer of technology in Greece, Turkey, Hungary and Mexico
This chapter analyses how trade integration with more industrialised countries has affected technological choices, as measured by imports of machines (embodied technology), in the sample countries. This analysis represents the first attempt to use machinery imports as a measur...
Programme: FP4-TSER
Record Number: 34168
Last updated on: 2004-09-06
This part analyses changes in the long-term trade patterns (1970-95) of Mexico, Greece, Turkey and Hungary to assess their evolution of technological capabilities, and the potential role of Greece, Turkey and Hungary in European integration. The aim is to point out the structu...
Programme: FP4-TSER
Record Number: 34166
Last updated on: 2004-09-06
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