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Could We Retain the Bulgarian Intellect аgainst the On-going Process of Globalization of the Intellectual Labour Market

Nikolina Sretenova

Abstract

            This paper discusses the brain drain phenomenon within the Bulgarian R&D sector in the context of (non)existing national policy for tackling the issue.Its main implication is as follows: We make a major distinction between the group of the labour migrants and the group of academic migrants. We assume that the researchers and scientists, the ‘academics’ in general, shape a special social group for which different motives trigger off the migration process. The major “push factor” about the exodus of researchers and about their motivation for leaving the country is the quality of the local research system and the working environment.

The paper provides insight into peculiarity of the Bulgarian research system in three aspects: 1. R&D legislation; 2. Human resources (R&D) and 3. Financial resources (funding of R&D) and in comparison with the cases of the other post-communist countries which are nowadays “new” member states of EU.

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