Russia has been negotiating for accession to the WTO for some ten years, and there is still no prospect of an immediate conclusion to the process. The reasons for this are partly to be found in the international environment. In the past, the geo-strategic concerns of the Western powers have...

This article outlines the main directions of the development of national innovation systems in the new EU member states as catch-up economies emerging from a period of systemic change. Attempts simply to copy the experience of the high-income economies in building national innovation systems are...

One of the outstanding characteristics of the Russian economy over the decade of transition has been the lack of structural change, whether in terms of the structure of production, of investment, of exports, or of key institutions like banks. It is argued that this is one of the main underlying...

The dynamic competitiveness of Kazakhstan's engineering-based firms is assessed on the basis of their prospects for technological evolution in terms of a simple, three-level taxonomy of goods — simple inputs/components, complex inputs/components and 'specialist supplier goods'. On the...

Detailed industry and firm level research reveals a striking difference between the patterns of motor vehicle parts supply networks in two major transition regions — Central-Eastern Europe (CEE) and China. In CEE second and third-tier suppliers are well developed, and are generally capable of...

This study of the feasibility, costs and benefits of a free trade agreement between the EU and Georgia was conducted from July 2007 to April 2008 under contrach with the European Commission. The first meeting in Brussels in September 2007 with staff members of Directorates-General for Trade,...

This study of the feasibility, costs and benefits of a free trade agreement between the EU and Armenia was conducted from July 2007 to April 2008 under contract with the European Commission. The first meeting in Brussels in September 2007 with Staff members of Directorates-General for Trade,...

Conventional transition policies of a predominantly macroeconomic character have done a good deal to create necessary conditions for building the knowledge-based economy in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Establishment of sufficient conditions for such an evolution...

The post-war political economy of Yugoslavia is analysed in terms of an interaction between patterns of international relations which have tended to peripheralise Yugoslavia and stubborn internal problems of centre-periphery relations. It is argued that the tendency for the West to give...