In dynamic business environment, foresight may be considered as a main instrument for strategic science and technology planning for companies, industrial sectors, regions or countries. Today none of the other available future studies can offer better synergies for strategic science and...

The article deals with monitoring the use of financial resources from EU Structural Funds to support innovative activities in the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary not only in the present, but also in the previous programming period (2000-2006). It describes the areas to...