Jan Monkiewicz, born 1949, is Associate Professor of Economics at Warsaw University and Chief Expert at the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Consultant for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the World Bank, and the United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations. Numerous books in Polish and English.

• 0. Introduction Part I: Setting the Analytical Framework 1. Determinants of National Technological Performance 2. Foreign Technology and National Technological Build-up: A Search For a Framework 3. The Theory of the Dominant Economy and International Technology Transfer Part II: Quantifying East-West Technology Transfer 4. World-Wide Transborder Technology flows: Dominant Centers and Dependents 5. Foreign Technology Infusion into CMEA Countries. Size, Structure, Sources 6. Foreign Direct Investments and East-West Technology Transfer Part III: Dynamics of the CMEA Technological Position During the 1970s and 1980s 7. Technology Gap: Conceptual and Statistical Problems 8. Evolution of the CMEA Technological Position During the 1970s and the 1980s Part IV: Technology Import and the Technology Gap: Major Findings and Conclusions

Jan Monkiewicz, born 1949, is Associate Professor of Economics at Warsaw University and Chief Expert at the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Consultant for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the World Bank, and the United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations. Numerous books in Polish and English.

• 0. Introduction Part I: Setting the Analytical Framework 1. Determinants of National Technological Performance 2. Foreign Technology and National Technological Build-up: A Search For a Framework 3. The Theory of the Dominant Economy and International Technology Transfer Part II: Quantifying East-West Technology Transfer 4. World-Wide Transborder Technology flows: Dominant Centers and Dependents 5. Foreign Technology Infusion into CMEA Countries. Size, Structure, Sources 6. Foreign Direct Investments and East-West Technology Transfer Part III: Dynamics of the CMEA Technological Position During the 1970s and 1980s 7. Technology Gap: Conceptual and Statistical Problems 8. Evolution of the CMEA Technological Position During the 1970s and the 1980s Part IV: Technology Import and the Technology Gap: Major Findings and Conclusions

Jan Monkiewicz, born 1949, is Associate Professor of Economics at Warsaw University and Chief Expert at the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Consultant for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the World Bank, and the United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations. Numerous books in Polish and English.

• 0. Introduction Part I: Setting the Analytical Framework 1. Determinants of National Technological Performance 2. Foreign Technology and National Technological Build-up: A Search For a Framework 3. The Theory of the Dominant Economy and International Technology Transfer Part II: Quantifying East-West Technology Transfer 4. World-Wide Transborder Technology flows: Dominant Centers and Dependents 5. Foreign Technology Infusion into CMEA Countries. Size, Structure, Sources 6. Foreign Direct Investments and East-West Technology Transfer Part III: Dynamics of the CMEA Technological Position During the 1970s and 1980s 7. Technology Gap: Conceptual and Statistical Problems 8. Evolution of the CMEA Technological Position During the 1970s and the 1980s Part IV: Technology Import and the Technology Gap: Major Findings and Conclusions