Can Croatia join Europe as competitive knowledge-based society by 2010?

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 809-824

  Petrovečki, Mladen ^a   Paar, Vladimir ^b   Primorac, Dragan ^a  

^a Ministry of Science   (Croatia)

^b CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROATIA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LEARNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST;

CROATIA; EDUCATION; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 33845913217     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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