Marking time, and what to do instead – Possible ways ahead of the Hungarian R&D and innovation strategy from a competitiveness point of view

Government programmes and communication often – almost always – refer to the Hungarian R&D sector, and the national innovation system as an area whose rapid development is of key significance from the point of view of the country's convergence. The same has been increasingly often heard from the moment the country's EU accession was agreed, and the EU devised its own convergence programme in 2000, called the Lisbon strategy (Rodrigues, 2003, Kok, 2004).