Network Dynamics in Emerging Regions of Europe

Innovation Networks: The Slovakian National Innovation System: Why Doesn't It Work? (S Salis); Innovation and the R&D System in Poland (M Kondratiuk); Labour Markets, Job Matching and Social Networking: Job Matching, Human Capital Accumulation and Economic Development (D A Dyker); Human Capital and Skills in Hungary - Matching Demand and Supply (A Salavetz); Human Resources and Skills Gap in a Regional Context: The Campania Case (M Del Sorbo); Industrial Networks and International Spillovers: R&D Spillovers, Innovation and Growth in Firm-Level Productivity in Slovenia (J Damijan et al.); FDI in the East German Innovation System (J Gunther et al.); Network Alignment in the Automotive Clusters of Turkey and Poland (G Ozatagan); and other papers.

David A Dyker was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1944. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and the Economics University of Tashkent in Uzbekistan. He has been studying the countries of Central-East Europe and Eurasia for over 30 years, and in his extensive published work he has charted the decay of socialism, the difficult beginnings of transition, and the broadening-out of the agenda facing second-stage transition at the start of the new century. His Process of Investment in the Soviet Union (CUP, 1983), Technology of Transition (CEUP, 1997) and Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer in the Former Soviet Union (Edward Elgar, 1999) are classics in the field. In addition to teaching and scholarly research, Dyker has been deeply involved in the transition process as a practitioner, and has worked as a consultant for the Russian, Romanian and Kazakhstani governments, and also for the UN Economic Commission for Europe. David Dyker is an academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is married with three children.