Transitions in thinking: changing the mindsets of policy makers about innovation

Acha, Virginia; Balázs, Katalin

doi:10.1016/s0166-4972(99)00032-2

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“…Under communism, the tendency was to focus on routines and to upgrade traditional technolo- gies, rather than develop new ones. To improve quality and modernize structures, foreign investors have to overcome the lack of incentive to change, learn, and adapt skills, and a strong bureaucratic and hierarchical structure (Acha & Balazs, 1999). • Qualification-related barriers.…”

Section: Identification Of Problems Faced By Foreign Investors In Tramentioning

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FDI in CEECs: How do Western investors survive?

Fabry¹,

Zeghni²

2003

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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Executive SummaryThis article emphasizes that knowledge transfer across a firm's boundaries, in a transition context, implies a specific involvement of Western investors. They need to promote specific relationships within affiliates. This article emphasizes two points. First, partners have few common practices and do not share the same perception of the firm. This is the problem with building new capabilities. Second, Western firms have to mobilize organizational resources to build efficient affiliates (new human resources management, introduction of new functions, management by expatriates). Setting up new management rules to run an affiliate in transition countries is costly and often underestimated by foreign investors.

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Section: Identification Of Problems Faced By Foreign Investors In Tramentioning

confidence: 99%

FDI in CEECs: How do Western investors survive?

Fabry¹,

Zeghni²

2003

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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“…The transition economies in CEE share a common history of totalitarianism and planned economies, which has affected the whole logic of building the NIS. In CEE countries, one of the major path-dependent constraints is revealed as neglecting the role of enterprises as principal performers of R&D in market economy (Acha and Balasz 1999 ) , which is complemented by a fundamental inability to perform R&D on behalf of enterprises . In addition, the majority of EU new member states are such small countries that, even if they increase their relative R&D expenditures to the level of the advanced countries, domestic research potential remains extremely limited.…”

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“…It is plausible that in several CEE countries the belief in ultra-liberalism contributed signifi cantly to ignorance of the above industrial policy measures. The need for a mindset change in CEE politicians is also discussed from other aspects by Acha and Balasz ( 1999 ) .…”

Section: Latecomer Status and Path Dependency Combined In The Industrmentioning

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“…R&D and innovation are often used interchangeably among policy makers in CEE catch-up countries (Acha and Balasz 1999 ) without understanding that R&D is a result, or an element in a matrix driven by market demands as well as technology supply, rather than a root cause. As Radošević ( 2006 ) has stressed, the argument that demand is the key factor in effective innovation is at least as applicable to the transition countries as to the advanced economies.…”

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Innovation Systems in Small Catching-Up Economies

Carayannis¹,

Varblane²,

Roolaht³

2012

Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management

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“…Acha and Balazs (1999) suggest that after many years of socialist rule, institutions in CEE have a resistance to and weak capacity for change. This is the case not only for science practitioners, but also for the policy-making institutions governing them.…”

Section: National Science Systems During and After Transitionmentioning

confidence: 99%