Potreba dosahových štúdií a súradnice ich vypracúvania
THE NEED OF IMPACT STUDIES AND CO-ORDINATES TO ELABORATE THEM

Summary/Abstract: Economic research in Slovakia dedicates itself for a long time indeed to theoretical problems and practical course of the integration process in the EU as well as some im-plications related to the Slovak Republic. However, as late as in March of this year the Institute of Slovak and World Economy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences got a Government order to design the first impact study. Considering the specific character of impact studies, it was necessary from the methodology as well as content point of view to define their character, position, and importance as well as national and interna-tional co-ordinates for their elaboration. Impact studies just presented in this paper are characterised as a specific joining of elements in SWOT analysis, prognosis and strategy. One can elaborate them taking into account various structural level and intersections from the EU as a whole through indi-vidual national economies, sectors branches and enterprises down to various interest groups. At the same time, due to the changes in EU and in individual candidate and member countries, one usually expects a certain periodicity of pre-enter and post-enter impact studies. Key part of the paper concentrates it attention at the definition of basic attributes of national-economy oriented impact study concerned with the economic and social con-nections of the Slovak entry into the EU. It characterises the basic aim and its decompo-sition into partial targets. It presents essential description of advantages and disadvan-tages, chances and risks of Slovakia’s incorporation into the integration process. Refer-ring to the experience of the EU countries there is an urgent need of visions, predic-tions, concepts and market conformable plans and programmes. From the point of view of the Slovak conditions, the paper pays special attention to the substantiation of the necessity of rational strengthening managerial, administrative and implementation capacities. In the conclusion, the paper explains the significance of the formation of the Euro-pean research space of the extended EU and its asset for the elaboration of impact studies.

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