Contents of works published after 1990

Romanian National Computer Network for Research and Higher Education
Proceedings INET’95, pag. 847-854, Honolulu, June 1995;

Staicut, Eugenie ( estaicut@roearn.ici.ro)
Popa, Julian ( julian@roearn.ici.ro)
Macri, George ( gmacri@roearn.ici.ro)
Toia, Adrian ( atoia@roearn.ici.ro)

Abstract

This paper reviews the current status of the Romanian National Computer Network for Research and Higher Education (RNC), services provided and user community in the first stage of the development. Some lessons learned during this phase
are considered. Then, future plans for the second phase of development are briefly described with emphasis on the development of a national backbone and a metropolitan network for Bucharest.

The first node ( ROEARN) was installed in December 1992 at Research Institute of Informatics in Bucharest and it was connected by leased line to Vienna University having only BITNET connectivity. Very soon some other nodes installed
at research institutes and universities in Bucharest were connected to ROEARN.

Exploring the network services it became very soon clear that the future of networking for research community is Internet, so only in few months, April 1993, Romania got Internet connectivity too. With the kind assistance of people
of INTERNIC, RIPE and Vienna University, the .ro top level domain was registered. People of ACONET, EUNET, SUNET, UUNET, and MILNET helped with running secondary nameservers for .ro domain.

Also, with help from European Community a second leased line between Bucharest and Amsterdam was installed in 1993 to allow a higher number of end user nodes to be connected.

Communities being served by RNC include mainly: R&D; institutes; higher education universities; libraries; government and non-government institutions that coordinate activity in research and academic institutions, high schools.

The paper presents the sources of funds, statistics regarding the total traffic, number of hosts, subdomains and users. The present configuration is star like. About 25 nodes are connected by leased lines to the international gateway
and 10 telephone numbers are equiped for dialup access both for e-mail communication and also for interactive acces via TELNET or FTP.

To improve the line utilization for dialup access, POP server und UUCP protocols were installed for e-mail communications. Many programs from public domain are being used for giving acces to users. A variety of computer types (MicroVAX/VMS,
DECStation Sun, IBM-AIX, PC486 with Linux) are connected. The use of UNIX machines is recently gaining advantage.

User support is provided by personnel at each main site; technical assistance and training are offered for the connection of new users and initiation in using the network services. User documentation (in Romanian and English) and some
guides for Internet resources are available in electronic form on fileservers.

The paper presents also some difficulties which were encountered during the first phase of development of RNC, mainly refered to the communication infrastructure, computer and human resources. Finally, the objectives for future developments,
network structure and topology for a 2nd phase of RNC are outlined.

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The Main Guidelines of R&D Institutional System
in vol. Science Policy and Research Management în the Balkan Countries Kluwer Academic Publishers, pag.79-98 NATO ASI Series,1995;

NATO-THE MAIN REFORM GUIDELINES.pdf

Dynamic Changes in the Romanian Research and Development System
in vol. Transformation of Central and Eastern European science systems (p.977-1044), Leske +Budrisch, OPLANDEN 1995;

At the moment of the December 1989 Revolution, the Romanian scientific research and technologic development activity, as a whole, was in a state of emergency, completely blocked both in its functional mechanisms and structures, and in its relationship with the social-economic environment. The situation was so much the worse since previously, between 1965 and 1980, the scientific research and engineering and technological development activity had been a decisive factor in the rise and growth of the national industry in certain economic sectors able to satisfy the commands of extensive development (some of which were intrinsically highly competitive).

We could safely say that at the end of the ’80s up to 80% of Romanian industry and economy would be accomplished due to the firsthand contribution of the scientific and technical productive power demonstrated by Romanian researchers and designers. Gradually after 1980 an obvious, yet officially well disguised gap occurred between research and design institutes, on the one hand, and productive enterprises on the other hand the latter failing to manifest interest in and admit the necessity and impact of scientific research.

Dynamic Changes in the Romanian Research and Development System.pdf

Research market – old controversy under new conditions
Science and technology management – NATO Science series 4;
Science and Technology Policy, pag.136-150, IOS Press 1998, Netherlands;

Session II: The Effect of Globalisation on Science and Technology Management
– International Cooperation as a Tool in S & T Management, S. Schwartzstein, C. Dorman and D. McGillen
– Improving the Institutional Framework and the System of Information, Education and Training in Technology Transfer for Experts, R.E. Armit
– New Challenges in Promoting Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Managing Technology Transfer and Diffusion Services
– An International Comparison of R & D Funding and Industrial Results, J. Cantacuzéne
– Against Blind flying: Quantities Ingredients to the Decision Making Puzzle in Science Policy, 7. Braun
– Challenges for German Science and Technology Policy, R. Koepke
– Bottom-Up Analysis of Science and Technology Management: Theory, Practice and Applications, O.G. Tandberg
– Management as a Means for the Development of Social Science Investigations in Contemporary Russia, Y.N. Solodukhine and M.F. Solodukhina
– Research Market: Old Controversy under New Conditions, A. Toia

Abstract

The paper presents a view concerning the old and new approach of science policy concept – “research market”.

After a short presentation of theoretical problems,levels and main characteristics of the concept, the paper proposes some themes forreflection and action concerning tendencies, actors and mechanisms on the “researchmarket” , under
actual development of the innovation process and globalization on science and technology management.

Telework – concept, fields of application, research directions
Science and Society, no. 1/1997, INID, Bucharest;

TELEWORK in Romania – from project to implementation
TELEWORK in Romania – from project to implementation.pdf

E3WORK Project – eLearning-Module1
E3WORK Project – eLearning-Module1.pdf

QUESTIONAIRE EMPLOYEES
QUESTIONAIRE EMPLOYEES.pdf

QUESTIONAIRE EMPLOYERS
QUESTIONAIRE EMPLOYERS.pdf