26. Jan. 2006

A new book for RTD managers, scientists and policy makers interested in international S&T developments has just been published!

Title: The Integration of Central Europe into the European System of Research - An empirical study of the participation of Central European Countries in the 4th and 5th European Framework Programme for RTD
Author: Klaus Schuch
Publishing House: Guthmann-Peterson, Wien and Müllheim an der Ruhr
236 pages
ISBN 3-900782-51-2-4
Euro 38,00/sfr 57,00
online order: http://www.guthmann-peterson.de/

Summary: The book provides from a recent historic perpective insight about the political processes, administrative conditions and programmatic operations that made a co-operation between the EU and the Central European Countries possible. It can be demonstrated that successful participation in the European Framework Programmes for RTD depends on economic development factors and the level of the national research and innovation systems of each country under scrutiny. The book also gives a comparative picture of how the individual Central European Countries differed from each other in terms of scientific and technological specialisation patterns, geographical co-operation patterns and the organisational background of the engaged research teams under the 4th and 5th European Framework Programmes for RTD.