Original scientific paper
Why Are We Leaving?
Branka GOLUB
Abstract
Research into the professional status of young Croatian
scientists, conducted in 1998, has opened the question of the
exodus of scientists. According to the opinions of scientific
and wider community, it has long surpassed the limits of
normal and desirable socio-spacial mobility of this professional
group. At the end of the questionnaire, the participants
gave free answers about the drain of scientists to
foreign countries, regardless of personal intentions. The
analysis showed the full complexity of links of social environment
and local scientific community with the phenomenon
of the scientists' drain. Various aspects of their departure
from the country have emerged by grouping together
the individual answers, according to the logic of their content.
Thus, one can speak about the emigrating tradition,
allocation of funds for transfers to areas of greater prosperity,
brain circulation, war and post-war etiology, but before
all else, about the unsatisfactory treatment of sciences by the
society and about the hierarchical organization of scientific
and research activities. In that context, the treatment of
younger scientists by the senior, established scientists, particularly
in their position of mentors, and in transferring
knowledge and experience is especially emphasized.
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Hrčak ID:
19540
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2003.
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