Technology Policy in Small Industrialized Economies

  • Gernot Hutschenreiter
  • Hannes Leo

With technology gaining importance as a factor of competition instruments of technologigal policy have been further developed in nearly all industrialized economies. In the context of the ATMOS project WIFO analysed in some detail the relevant policies of Finland and the Netherlands since small open economies, in spite of other differences, often face similar problems. The focus of the study was on issues of organization and the implementation of technological policy instruments.