Under the realm of the overarching objective of sustainable development, the configuration, structure, relationships and dynamics of the traditional systems of social protection have undergone a process of transformation towards a more tenable architecture, referred to, hereafter, as the system...

The science and technology are essential to attain the millennium objective of both the developed countries, that are close to the technological frontier, and the developing countries, that must catch up with the former ones. The sustainable economic growth implies more than the mere opening...

This paper is based on the Romania country review, produced as internal working papers for the research project “Monitoring and analysis of policies and public financing instruments conducive to higher levels of R&D investment”. The aim of the project is to serve as support for policy...

Under current circumstances, the acute shortage of financial resources–particularly of budgetary resources – makes it very difficult to provide for the funding needed to carry on the activities of research, development and innovation (RDI), which are acknowledged, in all experts’ opinions,...

Positive externalities that might appear as a result of foreign direct investments cannot be internalised by national companies in the absence of a critical mass of the absorption capacity at company level, and at the level of the national economy. The present study makes reference to four...