Technology of Transition

Professor David Dyker was one of the founders of the University of Sussex Economics department and the former School of European Studies.

• Notes on the editor and contributors, Preface, Part I Setting the Scene Technology policy and industrial objectives in the context of economic transition 2 A general taxonomic approach to technology policy 3 Poland: technology problems in a typical transition economy 4 Transforming centrally planned systems of science and technology: the problem of obsolete competencies Part II Transferring Technology 5 Technology transfer to transition countries: are there lessons from the experience of the post-war industrializing countries? 6 Multinational companies and the transfer and diffusion of new technological capabilities in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 7 Technology transfer in global competition: the case of economies in transition Part III Building the Institutions 8 Is there any future for the Academies of Sciences? 9 National systems of innovation, public policy for innovation, and institutional learning: is the French experience relevant to the transition economies? Part IV Technology Transfer and International Trade 10 Foreign direct investment and intra-industry trade: the case of the automotive industry in Central Europe 11 EU trade, industry and competition policy: market access and transnational issues of policy-making for technology transfer 12 The transformation of technological capabilities in Russian defence enterprises, with special reference to dual-use technology, Index.