The Future of
Bulgarian Science and Scientific Investigation
Tanja Nedelcheva
The future of
Bulgarian science is substantially connected with the policy pursued by the
state in this area. In recent years a number of normative documents have been
passed that regulate various aspects of scientific activity. However, by more
than a few indicators the gap between the norms and the factual situation is
growing instead of narrowing down. That is why a new strategy and policy of the
state are needed, especially now that science has become one of the national
priorities: increasing the share of science in the GDP in accordance with the
agreements the government has signed in the EU framework, providing concessions
and incentives in financing science, stimulating the active interaction between
business and science, creating conditions for restricting the loss of
intellectual potential due to “brain drain”, and, of course, reforms within the
sphere of science itself in terms of optimizing personnel and structures,
successful interaction between different scientific institutes and between
institutes and higher schools, close collaboration with science in other
countries, the application of scientific results in practice.
The research
findings indicate there is effective interaction between society and science
with regard to the future development of science. This interaction is a result
of Bulgarians’ specific traditional reverence for science and also of the new
globalization processes of building an information society and a knowledge
society. This kind of attitudes would enable realizing more successfully the
new project for the development of science in