Education is the path to sustainable evolution and acceleration of the catching up process in emerging economies. Without education there is no technological breakthrough, no increase in the created added value and also no improvement in the overall quality of life of a nation’s inhabitants. This paper focuses on the added value created by education as a standalone process and also as a 2nd tier influencer of the economic meadow, with strong bifocal influence resulted in the adaptation and creation of economic policies targeted towards new educational standards. The main method of research used was documentary analysis that used both primary data from the literature, especially articles from journals indexed in international databases and f...