DRUŠTVENA PODCIJENJENOST ZNANOSTI I RAZVOJ HRVATSKOG ISTRAŽIVAČKOG POTENCIJALA
SOCIAL MARGINALIZATION OF SCIENCE AND TRENDS IN CROATIAN RESEARCH PERSONNEL

Summary/Abstract: A comprehensive insight into the trends of growth, volume and structure of Croatian research personnel is of the utmost importance in examining human resources in scientific and technological development. Such insight, which is the aim of this paper, has been achieved by applying complex analysis and synthesis of various available empirical information: either statistical data on researchers or findings of international and Croatian studies about science. The decrease of total and research personnel in Croatian R&D in the last decade followed the general trends typical for post-socialist countries. Due to a long history of social marginalization of science, consequences of such trends have been particularly severe for the Croatian innovative potential. Therefore considering the relative strength of its research force, Croatia today lags behind developed countries and is even behind the average for transitional countries.

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