Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction

What can Quantitative Analysis of Trends in Science and Technology tell us about Patterns of Transformation and Growth in the Post-Socialist Countries?

David A Dyker

Slavo Radosevic

Part I - Technology, Growth and Structural Change

A Global Perspective on Technology and Economic Performance, and the Implications for the Post-Socialist Countries

Bart Verspagen

Patterns of Structural Change in Manufacturing Industry in Central and Eastern Europe

Waltraut Urban

Technology and Industrial Restructuring in Central Europe

Mark Knell

Doris Hanzl

Part II - Bibliometrics and the Changing Science Landscape

Advanced Bibliometric Methods in the Analysis of Research Performance and Scientific Developments: A Contribution to Science Policy in Transition Countries

Anthony F J van Raan

The Structure of Disciplinary Comparative Advantage in Post-Communist Countries

Jan Kozlowski

Dobieslaw Ircha

Bibliometric Analysis of S&T Policy in Bulgaria in the New Economic Conditions

Sergei A Rozhkov

Part III - Transformation of R&D

Transformation of R&D in the Post-Socialist Countries: Asset or Liability?

Werner Meske

Transformation of R&D in the Post-Socialist Countries: Patterns and Trends

Leonid Gokhberg

R&D Behaviour of Firms in Transition Economies: An Analysis of the Key Determinants

Branka Urem

The Transformation Role of FDI in R&D: Analysis Based on Material from a Databank

Annamaria Inzelt

Transformation of R&D in Russia: the Role of Government Priorities

Natalia Gorodnikova

R&D in East and West Germany since Reunification

Christoph Grenzmann

Part IV - Technical Change and Innovation: Innovation Surveys

Measuring Technological Innovation in Industry in European Union and Post-Socialist Countries

Giorgio Sirilli

Polish Innovation Surveys: Current Status and Analysis of Results

Grazyna Niedbalska

Specificities of Innovation Activity in Russian Industry

Leonid Gokhberg

Irina Kuznetsova

Innovation Activities in Open and Closed Economic Environments: The Case of the Yugoslav Metal-Processing, Chemicals and Textile Industries in 1987-91 and 1992-96

Djuro G Kutlaca

Part V - Trade, Technology and Structural Change

Trade, Technology and Structural Change in Post-Socialist Countries: an Introduction

Slavo Radosevic

Keith Pavitt

Technology and Structural Change in the Trade Patterns of the Former Centrally Planned Economies

Paolo Guerrieri

Transformation of Technology Patterns of Trade in the Post-Socialist Economies

Stanislaw Kubielas

Part VI - Measuring the Rate of Transformation of Technological and Human Resources in Russia

Knowledge Flows in the S&T System

Fred D Gault

Wendy Hansen

Statistics on Information Technology in Russia

Alexander Sokolov

High Education and the Labour Market in Russia: Trends in the Transition Period

Natalia Kovaleva

Index