TA-Institutionen und -Programme

by Annamária Inzelt

The IKU Innovation Research Centre was established in May 1991 with the aim of promoting research and teaching of the subjects of technological change and innovation. IKU is a self-financing non-profit organisation, which belongs to the Budapest University of Economic Sciences.

For the examination of technological change the co-operation of natural scientists and engineers is indispensable. As adoption, adaptation and diffusion of innovations cannot be restricted to economics, narrowly defined, representatives of other social sciences should also be involved in research projects. IKU forms mixed groups of scientists from different backgrounds to execute IKU's research projects.

IKU has spent a great deal of its efforts to join the international research community, to become a member of research networks. IKU is member of IATAFI - the International Association for Technology Assessment and Forecasting Institutions - and has regular contacts with some leading European Institutes, e.g.: SPRU Science Police Research Unit (United Kingdom); FhG-ISI Fraunhofer-Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung (Germany); MERIT Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (The Netherlands); CNR Consilio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy).

Researchers of IKU are members of several international associations: EEA European Economic Association, EARIE European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, EAEPE European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, EASST European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Schumpeter Society.

The main projects:

Restructuring the Manufacturing Industry and the Emergence of New Firms in Czechoslovakia and Hungary; Strategy for Efficiency and Re-industrialisation.

Partners: Policy Studies Institute (United Kingdom) and two experts from Czechoslovakia

Financers: ACE (EU), OTKA (Hungarian public fund)

Institutional Support for Technological Improvement and Industrial Policy Priorities (an international comparative analysis of auto parts, machine tools and pharmaceuticals industries, co-ordinated by the World Bank).

Partners: International Development Research Centre (Canada), National Research Centre for Science and Technology Development (Peoples Republic of China), Indian Institute of Management (India), International University of Japan (Japan), Yousei University Seoul (Korea), Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (Mexico), Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (Taiwan)

Organiser: World Bank

Financer: CIER

Survey of Technology and Innovation Infrastructure in Hungary

Partner: CMI Centrale Management International (France)

Financer: SPRINT (EU)

Future of Industry in Central and Eastern Europe

Partners: Institut für Arbeit und Technik (Germany), Kaunas University of Technology, Technology Transfer Centre (Lithuania), Cracow Academy of Economics (Poland), Club "Economika 2000" (Bulgaria), Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (Czech Republic), Zaporozhye Industrial Institute (Ukraine), Universiteit van Amsterdam (The Netherlands), University of Sunderland (United Kingdom)

Financer: COST (EU)

Research and Data Acquisition for a Sector Profile of the Hungarian Automotive Components Industry

Financer: ITD Hungary - Canadian Technical Assistance Program

Joint Research Program on Technical Innovation and Industrial Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe

Partners: CERNA Centre d'economie industrielle (France) Charles University (Czech Republik), SPRU-University of Sussex (United Kingdom)

Financer: Copernicus Programme (EU)

Analyses of Strengths and Weaknesses of Biotechnology in Selected Sectors

Partner: FhG-ISI Fraunhofer-Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung (Germany)

Financer: PHARE Programme (EU), Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF) (Germany)

Renewing the S & T Measurement System in Hungary

Financer: OMFB National Committe for Technological Development (Hungarian governmental agency)

Privatization and Innovation

Financer: OECD and OMFB National Committee for Technological Development

Pilot Innovation Survey

Financer: OMFB National Committee for Technological Development

Technology Transfer or Blockaded: International Co-operative Agreements in the Central European Economies in Transition (CEIT)

Partners: MERIT, University of Limburg, Maastricht (The Netherlands), SPRU, University of Sussex (United Kingdom), Faculty of Economics, Warsaw University (Poland), Institute of Learning Foundations, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)

Financer: ACE (EU)

For further information, please contact

Dr. Annamária Inzelt
Innovation Research Centre
Múzeum utca 17. L 128.
H-1088 Budapest
Tel.: + 36 1 118-5674
Fax: + 36 1 118-3040
E-mail: ainzeltMlx4∂omk omikk hu