Abstract Entering the knowledge society and mobilizing science technology are critical for emerging countries (ECs) to address important challenges of promote long‐term economic growth. Natural laboratories (NLs) geographical or geophysical singularities that provide comparative advantages leverage ECs scientific research international collaboration. Based on empirical evidence learning experie...

Despite the continually growing value of agricultural trade of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland, agricultural trade in the case of all of the countries of the Visegrad group represents only a marginal part of the total merchandise trade. The agricultural trade of the individual analyzed countries is, both in terms of the commodity structure as well as the territorial structure, ...

This article critically examines the theory of comparative advantage, which underlies the wide-spread support of worldwide trade liberalisations. Both the classical and neoclassical formulations of it are shortly discussed and its essential assumptions are scrutinised. These include the international immobility of capital and labour, balanced trade, the existence of an adjustment mechanism whic...