Technological development

Technological development – GDP growth under the action of technological change in the widest sense of the word. The socio-economic development of Macedonia after the Second World War was largely based on saving and investing in physical capital (buildings, machinery, equipment). This type of economic growth is basically limited due to the action of the law on declining yields. On the other hand, economic growth founded on technological changes in the broadest sense (new technologies, innovations, education, scientific research, managerial and entrepreneurial knowledge, etc.) is able to move the production limits of society up, with the same amount of existing resources . In the early transitional years, the country’s technological development indicators were extremely unfavorable: in the economic structure of the country, branches of low and medium technological intensity prevailed, the degree of wear of fixed capital in the Macedonian industry, on average, was over 70%, the innovation activity (measured through the number of reported and accepted patents weak – not more than 10 to 20 per annum), the share of research and development costs in the country’s GDP low (less than 0.5%), etc. The situation is not significantly changed to today’s days, and in some spheres even worsened – research and development costs, for example, are reduced to 0.2% of GDP, with an exaggerated concentration in the government sector and in the higher education sector And the minimum share of the business sector, which is an atypical situation in relation to that in developed countries. At the beginning of 2007, about 20% of the population of Macedonia uses the Internet, versus, on average, 50% in EU member states. Despite the unfavorable indicators of technological development, the accounting of economic growth shows that in the period 1997-2000, the Macedonian economy achieved an average GDP growth rate of 3.4%, of which even 60% of growth can be attributed to technological changes in the widest sense. Macedonia has not accepted its own strategy for technological development. On the other hand, reforms and approximation to the EU have contributed, more recently, government garnish seriously turn to promote the competitiveness of the economy, the building of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Skopje Creating a favorable business climate and supporting the development of information technologies, as Significant segments of technological policy. Not.: National Strategy for the Economic Development of the Republic of Macedonia, MANU, Skopje, 1997; News Bank, MACEDONIA – CONTRESS ECOONOMIC MEMORANDUM: Taccling Unemmed, September 17, 2003. Lit.: Z. Popovska, Technological Development of the Republic of Macedonia – Basic Assumption of Integration in the European Economic Area, open challenges of the Macedonian economy, Skopje, 2004; P. Samuelson and News. NORDHAUS, ECOOOMICCC, EIGHTENEH Editon, McGle-Hill – Irhin, USA, 2005; J. Stiglitz, C. Nansk, Economic, Or Ton & Top, Nannj Zork, 2002. T. F.


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