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Kovács, O. (2025): A minőségi növekedés felé – a nemnövekedés értékelése (The Road to Qualitative Growth: Revisiting the Concept of Degrowth). Közgazdasági Szemle, Vol. 72., No. 1, January 2025, pp. 59-91, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.18414/K.2025.1.59  The concept of degrowth, which advocates more restrained quantitative economic growth, is mostly referred to as a sitcom theory in mainstream economics. The aim of this p

With the European Union’s competitiveness not at its best, the need to boost innovation-driven economic growth is back on the agenda. In the meantime, the need for a dramatically new approach compared to the past seems to be becoming increasingly clear. Genuine innovation-led growth is not about quantitative growth, but about qualitative growth that reconciles societal needs with the limits of our planet. This

English version of the Book Review Kovács, O. (2015): Kołodko, G. W. (ed.) (2014): Management and Economic Policy for Development. Nova Science Publishers, New York. Society and Economy, Vol. 37., No. 1 pp. 132-136 In this book review, we argue that although no one can live under the delusion that growth and development would be the same, one should also accept the truism that we are far from having a ready-to-use mo

European Commission (2011): Policies in Support of Service Innovation. An INNO-Grips policy brief by ICEG European Center. Principal author: Olivér Kovács. Budapest. In developed economies, including many European ones, the service industry has been a major growth sector in recent decades and indeed now accounts for up to 70-80% of GDP. However, innovation policy has often ignored this sector, preferring to concentra