Notes on the editor and contributors

Preface

Part I Setting the Scene

Technology policy and industrial objectives in the context of economic transition

David A. Dyker

Jacques Perrin

A general taxonomic approach to technology policy

Jacques-Henri Jacot

Poland: technology problems in a typical transition economy

Lech Zacher

Transforming centrally planned systems of science and technology: the problem of obsolete competencies

Keith Pavitt

Part II Transferring Technology

Technology transfer to transition countries: are there lessons from the experience of the post-war industrializing countries?

Martin Bell

Multinational companies and the transfer and diffusion of new technological capabilities in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Margaret Sharp

Michael Barz

Technology transfer in global competition: the case of economies in transition

Slavo Radosevic

Part III Building the Institutions

Is there any future for the Academies of Sciences?

Kalatin Balazs

National systems of innovation, public policy for innovation, and institutional learning: is the French experience relevant to the transition economies?

Pierre Garrouste

Marie-Claire Villeval

Part IV Technology Transfer and International Trade

Foreign direct investment and intra-industry trade: the case of the automotive industry in Central Europe

Attila Havas

EU trade, industry and competition policy: market access and transnational issues of policy-making for technology transfer

Peter Holmes

The transformation of technological capabilities in Russian defence enterprises, with special reference to dual-use technology

Liudmila Bzhilianskaya

Index