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This book provides analysis of current trends in research evaluation worldwide and compares the research assessment and innovation ecosystems in Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovenia. It argues that in each country the research assessment system is interdependent with the national innovation system and the overall institutional governance/enforcement.

The paper problematizes the work and evolution of a Bulgarian artist from the point of view of the biographical approach, his artistic interventions and his re-legitimization as a contemporary artist. It discusses various aspects of contemporary art from the point of view of the artist, his interventions, market demands, the underlying contradictions, as well as the transformative tendencies in the small graphics. The paper argues that it is necessary to expand the understanding of contemporary art with certain actions of artists.

We are witnessing a heated debate among all professional communities on how to evaluate the scientific work of scientists. Are articles or books more valuable? What makes a text scientific? Is just having a DOI number enough to do so? Why does the marginal utility of a page change so drastically on the 20th page of a BSS (1800 characters per page) that no one has used for years? And after the 100th, the marginal utility (for an Academic Staff Development Act - ASDA - procedure) of every subsequent page is zero (if it's a standalone book)? I am struck by the lack of public evaluation of the substance of colleagues' scholarly output, unless it is a procedure under the APA.

This study of bank loans in the larger context of bank-firm relations under the Bulgarian Currency Board focuses on the 'intersection' between credit supply and demand from the point of view of both banks and firms. Both traditional and new hypotheses are suggested that correspond to specific conditions in Bulgaria: the ownership change, the corruption resulting from the transi- tion and other institutional and political factors. Using a cross-sectional model based on a survey on Bulgarian banks and a database of firms, this study found that the main factor affecting the dynamics and structure of credit was the institutional environment, whereas resources and traditional factors were secondary. During the period 1998-2001, banking activities were separate from those of the real sector. Given the new conditions resulting from setting up the Currency Board, the dual sector of firms and the specific institutional environment persist. Despite the discipline it has imposed, the Currency Board does not suffice by itself to overcome persistent institutional impediments, which are mainly related to the inefficiency of the judicial system, corruption, state capture and insecure property rights.