In several parts of the world, countries are undergoing economic, social, and political transitions, enhanced and accelerated by the forces of globalization. These transition economies can serve as laboratories for understanding the innovation process. This volume features original theoretical...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role of FDI in technology transfer and innovativeness of the Baltic States economies. The latter factors have also become main prerequisites of the Baltic States entrance into the era of “new economy”. The author exploited the data from various...

This paper bridges two approaches to assess national innovation performance based on European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) composite indicators and the analysis of the factors that may be behind these indicators. The main focus of the study is on analysing the innovation performance of the Baltic...