The aim of this paper is to determine how contract conditions in licensing agreements between Poland and the industrialized market-economy countries influence the long-term effects of imports of modern technology. Analysis is confined to two essential aspects of this problem. The first concerns...

The aims of this paper are to examine the role of licensing in the strategy of Western firms aimed at increasing their share in East European markets and to establish the pattern of their licensing policy pursued there. It is also expected that, as a by-product of this study, some other...