DIOSCURI Policy Recommendations

With no intention to promulgate any strong or exclusive concept of economic culture, the DIOSCURI project started from an understanding that the actions of those who take part, govern and think of economic transactions in countries of post-socialist transformations are inspired and challenged by knowledge, perceptions, and values beyond the authority of the legal provisions of the acquis communautaire. Our comparative inquiry also assumed that the European enlargement and integration mobilize cultural encounters in which foreign and local actors interact, clash over and negotiate institutions of entrepreneurship, governance, and knowledge generation by producing hybrid configurations of knowledge and norms. Because of the scope and method of the research, it is more legitimate to draw some lessons, rather than propose specific courses of actions to those who make decisions on economic policy and regulations, craft reform agenda for public administration, and design institutional frames for research and higher education in domestic and European contexts.