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Croatian Scientists' Drain and its Roots

Croatia experienced the problem of brain drain of its highly educated population and of scientists in particular, during the past decades. Today, when it has become a new member of the international community, Croatia experiences the problem even more intensely. Social turbulence, caused by the transformation of the socialist order into a free market society and a multiparty democracy, have encouraged the scientists' drain which now exceeds the tolerable limits for a country the size of Croatia and one at its developmental level. The inherited characteristics of national scientific system (poverty, extensiveness, egalitarianism, autarchy) are undergoing a process of restructuring. An increase in funds and improved infrastructure allowing a "technological leap" into the modern times would enable Croatian science to be better connected to the global scientific community and would reduce the need for departures into the world scientific centres. International scientific cooperation is today, more than ever before, based on a dislocated realization of scientific programmes and projects and it will eventually reduce the differences between the scientific centres and scientific periphery.

Croatian scientists' drain; potential scientists' drain; social position; scientific system

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