Communist ideology placed great emphasis on science and technology, but in a way that reflected little understanding of the reality of technological processes. In the transition economies, the institutional structure remains distorted in a way that is inimical to effective technology transfer....

Interviews conducted at leading multinationals investing in central-eastern Europe (CEE) suggest that the productivity gap between lead firms and subsidiaries within the framework of foreign direct investment is relatively small, and can be closed quite quickly. The productivity gap in relation...

A product of the Framework V research project, this book addresses one of the key problems facing the EU today: Why is the 'new' EU so much poorer than the 'old', and how will EU enlargement help to solve the problem? Focusing on the productivity problems underlying the East-West gap, it looks...

In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the mostdifficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition fromautocratic "real socialism" to a capitalism that is sometimesdemocratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economicdimension of transformation, but...