This paper aims to characterize the impact of factors affecting competitiveness and productivity in forestry sector in Bulgaria, corresponding to female’s employment, such as: formation of wages; education and training, insurable earnings for women in the sector, etc. The study is based on...

The Republic of Bulgaria has been a Member State of the European Union since 2007. Its economic development has been framed by a Currency Board Arrangement (binding the national currency to the euro) since 1997. Recent development is characterised by slow economic growth. Preliminary GDP data...

The presented report is an analysis of the innovation policy profile of Bulgaria prepared under the study on “Innovation Policy in Seven Candidate Countries: The Challenges”. The study was carried out for the countries Bulgaria, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta Romania, and Turkey. It...

The problem of brain-drain has been one of the main concerns of Bulgarian society since 1990. The lack of clear strategy for transformation of the society and its S&T sector has affected the most adversely higher educated and skilled personnel. According to the recent evaluations each year the...

The rapidly changing nature of modern societies needs to enable the benchmarking of progress through statistical indicators. The book is taking up the challenge of using newly developed innovative information society indicators, tested and piloted in a representative survey held in all EU Member...

The paper attempts to define the challenges to the indicators on science, technology and innovation development which result from the contemporary dynamics of the global knowledge based economy progress and the pursued challenges of identification of the specific national priority dimensions for...

The paper discuss the role and importance of R&D in Bulgaria’s economy, summarizing the challenges both for policy and economic as follow: Increasing internal demand for domestic R&D activities and outcomes, mainly the business demand; Increasing foreign demand for domestic R&D activities and...

This report is a part of the study "Supporting Digital Literacy Public Policies and Stakeholders' Initiatives", which involves data collection and analysis in a large number of countries, with a view to achieving several interlinked objectives, and in order to facilitate the realisation of one...

The objective of the paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the problems of economic integration of urban consumers’ demand and rural forestry production and possible solutions of forest-based entrepreneurship in small-scale forestry, wood processing and non-wood forest products...