Transformation of Research Systems in Central and Eastern Europe: A Coincidence 
of Opportunities and Trouble

Schimank, Uwe

doi:10.1177/030631295025004003

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Transformation of Research Systems in Central and Eastern Europe: A Coincidence of Opportunities and Trouble

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Schimank, Uwe
Projektbereiche vor 1997, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Schimank, U. (1995). Transformation of Research Systems in Central and Eastern Europe: A Coincidence of Opportunities and Trouble. Social Studies of Science, 25(4), 633-653. doi:10.1177/030631295025004003.

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This paper analyzes the transformation of research systems in Central and Eastern Europe as a coincidence of opportunities and trouble. Political rebuilding has brought opportunities for the greater self-regulation of research which has been demanded by many researchers. But an appropriate institutional rebuilding of the research system is strongly restricted by sharply reduced resources, and by political pressure towards research orientated to short-term applications in industry. These factors have shaped the dynamics of the transformation of research systems in the post-communist countries and have led, so far, to rather unsatisfactory outcomes. This paper gives an overview of these developments, emphasizing the similarities between the different countries.