Technological Lag and Intellectual Background: Problems of Transition in East Central Europe Book

	Preface
	About the Authors
	Introduction
1	The economic strategy of Hungary in the grasp of the transformation and recession	3
2	Hungarian industry in the process of transformation	19
3	Technology development in Hungarian agriculture: results and problems	31
4	International tendencies, infrastructure and services in Hungary	55
5	Productivity lag and intellectual background	85
6	High-level skills, knowledge transfer and industrial competitiveness	109
7	Intellectual background and the technological lag in Poland	131
8	The technological lag and technological potential of the Czech economy and implications for its integration into the world economy	147
9	Opening up to world economy and the single European market	157
10	Change of the export structure in Hungary in the transition period	173
11	The problem of quality in the Estonian economy with special regard to the foreign trade	191
12	The social-economic role of education today	199
13	Education, training and economic change in advanced market economies	219
14	Globalization in education: trends and challenges	235
15	The role and problems of education and vocational training in Hungary in the period of the social transformation and the modernization of the economic structure	255
16	The failure of the Soviet-type system and obstacles to transition: collective action in the transformation of an economic system	263
17	Japan from isolation to the position of world economic power	311
18	Attempts at closing up by long range regulators in the Carpathian Basin	323
19	The transformation of the legal system in Hungary with special reference to human rights	363