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Publication: The future of post-growth strategy: bureaucratic blindness in Visegrad countries

Kovacs, O. – Domonkos, E. (2026): The future of post-growth strategy: bureaucratic blindness in Visegrad countries. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2026.2744279 This paper examines the public sectors of the Visegrad countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) to determine the potential of a post-growth strategy. To this end, the research explores centralisat
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Deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation patterns in V4 countries – industry 4.0 as a way forward?

Kovács, O. – Domonkos, E. (2024): Deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation patterns in V4 countries – industry 4.0 as a way forward? Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 36., No. 4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2024.2323834  This contribution aims at: (i) mapping the deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation tendencies over the economic history of the Visegrad countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slo
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Instant Digital Economy? – Hungary Going Digital

Kovacs, O. (2020): Instant Digital Economy? – Hungary Going Digital. KKI Policy Brief, 2020/07. Abstract The aim of this paper is threefold. First, it addresses the question whether optimism about the instant productivity-boosting character of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation is justified. Second, by keeping in mind the potential pitfalls of such a production revolution, it looks at Hungary to see how it is pr
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Live Long Critical Thinking

Kovács, O. (2019): A kritikai gondolkodás legyen örök. Csaba László: Válság, Gazdaság, Világ. Adalékok Közép-Európa három évtizedes gazdaságtörténetéhez (1988-2018) című könyv bemutatása. Európai Tükör, 2019, 2. szám 109-115. o. DOI: 10.32559/et.2019.2.7 Anekdoták szerint annak idején a Szovjetunióban a Központi Bizottság ülésein mindig annak lehetett igaza, aki ülés előtt a honvédelmi miniszterrel együtt ment ki toa
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Big IFs in Productivity-Enhancing Industry 4.0

Kovacs, O. (2019): Big IFs in Productivity-Enhancing Industry 4.0. Social Sciences, Vol. 8., No. 2, Industry 4.0 Implication for Economy and Society, https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8020037 Abstract With the dawn of Industry 4.0, its productivity-boosting impact appears to be comfortably ensconced both in the media and in the scientific community. Still, our paper is to portend a rather dismal prognosis by outlining th
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23th Annual Conference of Central European Political Science Association – One hundred years after: 1918-2018

Title 23th Annual Conference of Central European Political Science Association – One hundred years after: 1918-2018 Role speaker Panel 3 Enlargement vs. Disintegration freom CEECs Perspective (Room S4) Title of the presentation: Trimming the Revolutionary Sails – Industry 4.0 and V4 Countries Location Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, Matej Bel University Date 13-14 September 2018
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Digitális érettség 2018 – (J)avuló versenyképesség a Visegrádi országoknál?

A svájci székhelyű IMD üzleti iskola Versenyképesség Kutató Központja immáron második ízben készített rangsort 63 ország digitális versenyképességéről. A jól ismert Versenyképességi Évkönyvhöz is felhasznált technológiai és tudományos infrastruktúrát mérő indikátorokat új kritériumokkal egészítették annak érdekében, hogy a tudás, a technológia és a jövőre való érettség pilléreire építve átfogó digitális rangsort hozz
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Hungary’s Competitiveness – Improvements or Fata Morgana?

By 2018, the Hungarian (47th) competitiveness seems to have reached a relative turning point by ostensibly breaking the declining path that followed the year 2016.In reality, by this move, Hungary has just returned to the levels where it always belonged to. Since the Hungarian competitiveness is covered by the dense fog of uncertainty in many domains (uncertainties over autocratic and anti-democratic governance, unce
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EMGP Strategic Project Workshop – New York 2017

Title EMGP Strategic Project Workshop – New York 2017 Role participant (Hungarian partner) Location Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University, New York Date 16-17 March 2017
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