Andrea Szalavetz

Personal details

Position: senior research fellow
Place of birth: Budapest
Phone: +36308488068
E-mail:

Fields of research

Economics of innovation

Science and technology policy

International business

Corporate competitiveness

Education and degrees

1983-1988 MA, economics, Marx Károly University of Economics

1991 Ph.D. economics

Work experience

2012- Research Centre of Economic and Regional Studies, HAS

1994-2011Institute for World Economics, HAS senior research fellow

1993-1994Hill and Knowlton Hungary, PR advisor

1991-1993International Business School Budapest, professor of macroeconomics and international business

1988-1991Institute for World Economics, HAS, PhD student

Language skills

English - fluent

French - advanced

German - intermediate

Selected publications

MTMT link: Link to MTMT website

The Hungarian Automotive Sector: A Comparative CEE Perspective with Special Emphasis on Structural Change. In: Welfens, J.P. [2012]: Clusters in Automotive and Information & Communication Technology. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 241-270

Developing entrepreneurial universities in transition economies to enhance technology transfer. International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, vol. 10, No. 2, 2011 pp. 118-130

Outward Direct Investment versus Technology Licensing: An SME perspective. Competitio, vol. 9, No. 1, 2010

Transformation- and catching-up issues in Hungary from a network alignment perspective. Acta Oeconomica, vol. 60, No. 2, 2010

From industrial capitalism to intellectual capitalism – The bumpy road to a knowledge-based economy in Hungary. In: Piech, K. – Radosevic, S. (eds.) [2006]: The Knowledge-Based Economy in Central and East European Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, (pp. 183-200)

Micro-level aspects of knowledge-based development: Measuring quality-based upgrading in MNCs Hungarian subsidiaries, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, vol. 3, No. 3, 2012

An atypical relation between structural change and changes in labour input: Hungary in an international comparison. Hungarian Statistical Review, 2007 Special number 11 pp. 24-42

Structural transformation of the capital stock and capital-saving technical change. Acta Oeconomica, vol. 57, No. 3 pp. 263-279, 2007

Physical capital stock, technological upgrading and modernisation in Hungary. Acta Oeconomica, vol. 55, No. 2, 2005