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A tanulmány a Kárpátalján élő magyar és ukrán lakosság területi mobilitásának mintá-ival foglalkozik, kitérve az országon belüli és a határokon átívelő folyamatokra. Az elmúlt években Ukrajnát jellemző migrációs trendek rövid bemutatását... more
A tanulmány a Kárpátalján élő magyar és ukrán lakosság területi mobilitásának mintá-ival foglalkozik, kitérve az országon belüli és a határokon átívelő folyamatokra. Az elmúlt években Ukrajnát jellemző migrációs trendek rövid bemutatását követően összehasonlító, leíró jelleggel ábrázoljuk Kárpátalja magyar és az ukrán etnikumú lakossága mobilitásának sajátosságait, demográfiai és szociokulturális változók mentén. Megállapításaink alapjául a TANDEM kutatás szolgált, aminek kétnyelvű adatfelvétele 2016-ban zajlott. Kontextuális korlátok A kárpátaljai ukrán és magyar ajkú közösség migrációs mintázatának vizsgálata mind a küldő ország, azaz Ukrajna, mind a befogadó országok, köztük Magyarország szemszö-géből is fontos relevanciával bír. Ukrajna trendjeinek vizsgálata a migrációval foglalkozó kutatásokat jellemző módszertani kihívásokon túl, további nehézségeket is hordoz ma-gában. Az elvándorlás mértékét és szerkezetét a nemzeti statisztikai hivatalok többsége tükörstatisztikák alapján becsli, vagyis a bevándorlókat befogadó országok visszajelzéseit alapul véve állapítják meg a távozók számát, az állandó népességhez viszonyított arányukat. Ukrajna esetében nehézséget okoz ugyanakkor, hogy az ország népességére vonatkozó sta-tisztikák meglehetősen idejét múltak, hiszen legutóbb 2001-ben került sor népszámlálásra. A migrációval kapcsolatos aspirációk mérésére alkalmas eszköz lehet a survey statisztika, de minden esetben aggályos azoknak a válaszoknak a hitelessége, amelyek illegális vagy félig legális tevékenységekre vonatkoznak. A fentiekkel magyarázható, hogy az ukrajnai migrá-cióval foglalkozó elemzések közelítései durvák, kevésbé megbízhatók, inkább a migráció szerkezetére, mint annak pontos mértékére fókuszálnak. A jelen elemzés bevezetője sem aspirál többre, mint ráirányítani a figyelmet azokra a szerkezeti pontokra, amelyek feltehetően relevánsak Kárpátalja régiójában is. A másod-elemzések következtetéseinek összegyűjtése mellett figyelmet fordítunk azokra a kva-litatív munkákra, amelyek nem segítenek ugyan a folyamatok számszerűsítésében, de
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Division of labor and resources across the former Soviet countries is shaped by the heritage of dependency structures rooting back to centuries of expansion of the Russian Empire and the centralized allocation of production within the... more
Division of labor and resources across the former Soviet countries is shaped by the heritage of dependency structures rooting back to centuries of expansion of the Russian Empire and the centralized allocation of production within the planning economy of the Soviet Union. The transition affected all the countries of the area, inducing movement of people for citizenship, labor, trade, or peace. Most vulnerable countries proved to be those, whose economy relied on agriculture, or showed traits of energy-dependence. Countries that lacked natural resources or the potential to transform their economies to productive ones supply their labor force as a survival strategy, creating remittances- dependence. Zooming into the post-Soviet area reveals a particular structure. On one hand there is a tendency of diverging and loosening ties between the countries, on the other hand dense interrelatedness is still present on many levels. First, I give an overview of the Soviet legacies, then I look at the data in search for patterns of exchange or rivalry defining relationships and the possible vulnerability of given states within the area. In search of the structures behind the flow of people I am interested in how dependency structures shape the interrelation of the countries of the post-Soviet area. This study relies on the descriptive and dynamic statistical account rather than historical as explanatory, based on country-level data. Overarching the past 25 years, my focus falls on current trends relying on data of the past 5-10 years.
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This paper presents an open table design project introduced by a high-end kitchen producing company in collaboration with maker communities, independent designers and the wider public. The case illustrates a hybrid open/collaborative... more
This paper presents an open table design project introduced by a high-end kitchen producing company in collaboration with maker communities, independent designers and the wider public. The case illustrates a hybrid open/collaborative innovation strategy, strategically adapted by a  rm for raising awareness, en- gaging the public, to raise its design options, and enriching its core design concepts.
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Digital fabricators print musical instruments, they explore the ways of creating music in the intersection and beyond of digital and electronic. They also explore how visual and audio meet, either by visualizing music or developing... more
Digital fabricators print musical instruments, they explore the ways of creating music in the intersection and beyond of digital and electronic. They also explore how visual and audio meet, either by visualizing music or developing solutions connecting visual expression to music perception and production. Anybody can transgress the blurred borders of creators and consumers of content in the digital arena. I invite taking a glance at the world of digital fabrication to understand the relationship of experimentation from the angle of rapid digital development affecting the music scene and what we perceive as relationship of audiovisual digital. This paper takes stock of the strands in experimentation with musical instruments and sounds by maker communities and entrepreneurs.
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The rise and fall of the Soviet Union shapes the migration patterns of the post-soviet area to today. Ethnic conflicts, wars, political unrest has dominated as a push factor for the first migration waves in the region. Ethnic minorities... more
The rise and fall of the Soviet Union shapes the migration patterns of the post-soviet area to today. Ethnic conflicts, wars, political unrest has dominated as a push factor for the first migration waves in the region. Ethnic minorities fled from the former republics toward Western destinations in the wake of the nineties. Ethnic return policies supported population movements within the former USSR. Migration patterns have transformed since toward massive contemporary labour migration, which has its legacies in the former central planning of the USSR defining the development paths and the structure of the economies of the sending and receiving countries of the post-soviet area. States faceing poverty and decline provide their labour force to Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Western destination countries. The former USSR despite of its dense economic and trade ties, after the collapse stepped on the path of desintegration.
Az egykori Szovjetunió migrációs rendszere a mai napig meghatározza a posztszovjet térség migrációs mintáit. A Szovjetunió felbomlását követően az új államok etnikai konfliktusok, politikai feszültség, háború közepette jöttek létre, melyet a kényszerű migráció, illetve az állampolgárság megszerzéséért irányuló etnikai mozgások jellemeztek. Ez utóbbiakat az új államok repatriációs politikái támogatták. Az etnikai kisebbségek jelentős számban hagyták el a térséget nyugati desztinációk felé. A globális munkamegosztás szempontjából a térség küldő szerepben van kelet-nyugat irányban. Az egykori központi tervgazdaság kijelölte a térség régióinak fejlődési útját és gazdasági szerkezetét, meghatározva a küldő és fogadó országok mai szerepét a regionális és világgazdaságban. A szegénységgel küzdő, leszakadó államok globális munkamegosztás szempontjából küldő szerepben vannak Oroszország, Kazahsztán, Belarusz és a nyugati államok felé.  A posztszovjet térség meghatározó gazdasági, kereskedelmi és kulturális kapcsolatai gyengülni látszanak, a térség dezintegrációja figyelhető meg.
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Scholarship on open innovation examines the different shades of opening up the innovation process of firms, where the most important feature is sourcing in knowledge. In this paper I examine the implications of adapting open innovation... more
Scholarship on open innovation examines the different shades of opening up the innovation process of firms, where the most important feature is sourcing in knowledge. In this paper I examine the implications of adapting open innovation frames to a field where it was not investigated before: performing arts (contemporary dance and theatre). I draw on case studies and demonstrate that open innovation strategies are viable for artistic production. Independent companies purposefully mining out external knowledge in production, and commercializing on the spillovers of their body of knowledge put themselves on the shelf of firms adopting and adapting to open innovation.
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Starting from the Schumpeterian producer-driven understanding of innovation, followed by user-generated solutions and understanding of collaborative forms of co-creation, scholars investigated the drivers and the nature of interactions... more
Starting from the Schumpeterian producer-driven understanding of innovation, followed by user-generated solutions and understanding of collaborative forms of co-creation, scholars investigated the drivers and the nature of interactions underpinning success in various ways. Innovation literature has gone a long way, where open innovation has attracted researchers to investigate problems like compatibilities of external resources, networks of innovation, or open source collaboration. Openness itself has gained various shades in the different strands of literature. In this paper I provide with an overview and a draft evaluation of the different models of open innovation, illustrated with some empirical findings from various fields drawn from the literature. I point to the relevance of transaction costs affecting viable forms of (open) innovation strategies of firms, and the importance to define the locus of innovation for further analyses of different firm and interaction level formations.
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As commonly expressed, populism is a synonym of demagogy, or an adjective used to describe and criticize the set of tools of a political movement. The meaning of democracy as constructed by language users is dynamically-changing and... more
As commonly expressed, populism is a synonym of demagogy, or an adjective used to describe and criticize the set of tools of a political movement. The meaning of democracy as constructed by language users is dynamically-changing and contextually bound. The interpretation of these two concepts is even more confused from a historical perspective as both the words democracy and populism have served to indicate a range of (in some cases diverging) phenomena, although they are perceived as being from the same semantic and contextual family. (Book Review)
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The third KISMIF International Conference “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) DIY Cultures, Spaces and Places” was help in Porto, Portugal, between 18th July and 21st July 2016. This edition was once again focused on underground... more
The third KISMIF International Conference “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) DIY Cultures, Spaces and Places” was help in Porto, Portugal, between 18th July and 21st July 2016. This edition was once again focused on underground music, but directing its attention this time towards the analysis of DIY cultures’ relationship to space and places. Thus, we challenged students, junior and senior teachers/researchers, as well as artists and activists, to come to the KISMIF International Conference and present works which explore the potential of the theoretical and analytical development of the intersection of music scenes, DIY culture and space under a multidimensional and multifaceted vision. Our intention was to enrich the underground scenes and DIY cultures analysis by producing innovative social theory on various spheres and levels, as well as focusing on the role of DIY culture in late modernity. Indeed, the role of music and DIY cultures is once more an important question — taking place in a world of piecemealed yet ever-present change. The space, spaces, places, borders, zones of DIY music scenes are critical variables in approaching contemporary cultures, their sounds, their practices (artistic, cultural, economic and social), their actors and their contexts. From a postcolonial and glocalized perspective, it is important to consider the changes in artistic and musical practices with an underground and/or oppositional nature in order to draw symbolic boundaries between their operating modalities and those of advanced capitalism. Territorialization and deterritorialization are indelible marks of the artistic and musical scenes in the present; they are related to immediate cosmopolitanisms, to conflicting diasporas, new power relations, gender and ethnicity.
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Being any age, even such a "round number" as 60, is not a virtue but a condition. -- And yet, a large group of my friends have put together a collection now that I passed that numerical hurdle. I am honored and humbled. To access it,... more
Being any age, even such a "round number" as 60, is not a virtue but a condition. -- And yet, a large group of my friends have put together a collection now that I passed that numerical hurdle. I am honored and humbled.

To access it, please follow this link:
http://polanyiresearchcen.wixsite.com/polanyi/borocz-anniversary

PLEASE NOTE: This is not "a book" but an online compilation of articles, most of which had already been published before their inclusion here.
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