I kind of knew I was going to be very tired today, by the time I finish work. I set my alarm for 6am in the morning, but most likely just being very ambitious. Will see tomorrow. And I just remembered I have clothes in the washing machine to dry, oh no! I just want to sleep!
I would love to talk about some progression with my thesis, but I can’t. I hardly wrote anything today and I still have so much to do and only 4 days to go.
This is a very rough draft:
‘The country`s main export is high-tech, IT goods and pharmaceutical products. The government encourages regional service sector job creation and the clusterisation of the Hungarian industry (financed by the European Union`s Structure and Cohesion Fund), the Hungarian government identified four sectors, that are key to the country`s future: auto motor, drugs and biochemical, IT and electronic and logistic. (Gordon Bajnai, 2009).
20/10/2008 - Hungary should invest more in research and development (R&D) to make its economy more competitive and boost growth, according to a new OECD report. Investments by multinational enterprises have helped the economy diversify into more technologically advanced sectors, such as information technology, cars and pharmaceuticals. http://www.oecd.org/document/47/0,3343,en_2649_34273_41522799_1_1_1_1,00.html OECD Reviews of innovation Policy: Hungary ISBN: 978-92-64-05404-2 www.oecd.org/publishing
policy/studies/studies_innovation_management_final_report.pdf)
Although, innovation related research existed during the communism, it was driven by the political and economic structure of the Eastern Block focusing on reaching production targets amongst the communist countries in the field of industrial and agricultural competitions. This form of centralised ‘Research & Development’ in Hungary had a negative effect on the innovative nature of the individual and created a gap between government supported research projects taking places at universities and the problem solving human mind outside an institutional environment.
The writer argues at the same time the existing artisan skills could potentially help the economy on the long term. The more people could work, the more they can earn and spend and the less the government have to pay out in benefits. Even if one person in every village that could come off benefits and contribute to the country’s GDP, it would make a difference.
Could the government clusterize artisan activity as it does with innovative industrial players?
I fall asleep 3 times by the time I typed in the last sentence. Clearly time to go to bed!
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