Research and Technology in Bulgaria -Challenges both for Policy and Economic Actors

The paper discuss the role and importance of R&D in Bulgaria’s economy, summarizing the challenges both for policy and economic as follow: Increasing internal demand for domestic R&D activities and outcomes, mainly the business demand; Increasing foreign demand for domestic R&D activities and outcomes; Increasing the quality of R&D potential and quantity of R&D personnel. Among possible directions for increasing the Bulgarian R&D and economic cooperation in South Eastern Europe identified is increasing the hi-tech import from European and other world technology leaders as a condition for increasing of the volume and quality of specific areas of R&D and economic activities in the country, which may lead to increasing Bulgarian export and intensifying regional R&D and economic integration