Using a Schumpeterian approach, this book views competitiveness as the outcome of rivalry and competition between industries of the three new and the old EU member states leading to the integration of the accession countries into the EU.

Introduction and Overview; A.Wziatek-Kubiak & I.Hashi How do the New Member States Cope with Competition in the EU Market?; A.Wziatek-Kubiak & I.Magda Can Government Policy Influence Industrial Competitiveness: Evidence from Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic; I.Hashi, D.Hajdukovic & E.Luci Interdependency of Real Exchange Rate, Trade, Innovation, Structural Change and Growth; P.J.J.Welfens Divergent Growth Rates in CEECs: An Alternative View; M.Brandmeier Networking and Competitiveness; R.Woodward & P.Wójcik The Process of Structural Change in Polish Manufacturing in 1995-2003 and its Determinants; K.Marczewski & K.Szczygielski Structural Change, Productivity and Performance: Evidence from Irish Manufacturing; M.O'Donnell What Drives Trade Specialization in the New EU Member States?; D.Borbély Specialization and Integration of Accession Countries into the EU Market: An Alternative View; M.Brandmeier Policy Implications for New and Old Member States of the EU; J.N.Ferrer & D.Kernohan

DORA BORBAeLY Economic Research Department, DekaBank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany MICHAEL BRANDMEIER Senior Economist, Institute for Economic Policy Research, Division of Money and Banking, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany ERJON LUCI Economist, World Bank, Tirana, Albania DARKO HAJDUKOVIC Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London; Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, UK IGA MAGDA Economist, CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research), Poland KRZYSZTOF MARCZEWSKI Professor of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Poland; Deputy Director for Scientific Research, Foreign Trade Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland MARY O'DONNELL Lecturer in Economics, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland KRZYSZTOF SZCZYGIELSKI Researcher, CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research), Warsaw, Poland RICHARD WOODWARD Economist, CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research); Lecturer, Management School, Edinburgh University, UK PIOTR WA"JCIK Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University, Poland