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Academia Română a fost creată în 1866 pentru a cristaliza cele mai înalte valori intelectuale din provinciile românești într-o societate erudită menită să consolideze identitatea națională pe baza a patru componente esențiale: limbă și literatură, istorie, etnografie și cultură. La...
The Romanian research system, connected to European reforms
Concentrating resources, reducing the bureaucracy, increasing the international openness, and stimulating applied and industrial research are general principles, implemented by any country that seeks to be competitive in the flat world of the global economy, and particularly in the competition for human resources. In the following weeks and months measures will come into effect that will level the playing field in the Romanian research system, in order to allow a real competition for public funds, in line with international good practices. Thereby, each leu of public funds will be used where it can generate the most relevant and important results.
Dr. Alexandru I. Căbuz
NASR President's Adviser
alexandru.cabuz@ancs.ro
Context
The journalist, essayist and writer Thomas Friedman, triple winner of the Pulitzer prize, is famous, among other things, for the way he summed up the effects of economic globalization: “The world is flat”. The message is that in a world where curtains, whatever the material they are made of, are fewer and increasingly transparent, in which communication technology has become far more widespread than potable water, and national borders no longer constitute an obstacle in the way of new ideas, nothing stands in the way of open competition for financial resources, natural resources and especially for human resources. In a flat world the secret of success is the capacity to form and/or attract human resources that are creative, adaptable, innovative, competitive.
As can be observed from the recent history of economic development of countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Western Europe after World War 2, and more recently China and India, the three links in the chain of competitiveness are higher education, research, and technological transfer and innovation. The nations that have understood that these ingredients must function together are the champions of the global competition (figure.).
In this context, Romania has been, until the ongoing crisis which started in 2008, in a twilight zone in which, although citizens seemed to have jumped willingly into the deep water of global competition, it has remained, from a public policy point of view, in the same isolation of long communist tradition. The consequences are well known: stagnation, lost ground with respect to our neighbors, and the massive westward migration of competitive human resources. Quoting Thomas Friedman once again: “people voted with their feet”, by leaving, and not just any people, but exactly those ready and willing to face up to competition in a “flat world”, abroad.
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