ZNANSTVENA POLITIKA I MODERNIZACIJA U HRVATSKOJ
SCIENTIFIC POLICY AND MODERNISATION IN CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: The author is exploring the role of science in three periods of Croatian modernisation. In the first period (until 1940) it is the author's opinion that scientific policy is not an autonomous activity, but is practised in a broader framework of cultural modernisation. Based on this, (one) national university was established and (one) national academy of sciences and arts. Scientific policy as a form of cultural modernisation is powered by two fundamental goals: (i) the elimination of basic illiteracy; (ii) the formation of national intelligentsia and identity. The third goal appears only as a marginal one: the shaping of groups with specialist technical education. In the second period (1945-1991) the main directions of scientific policy are continued. However, due to the establishment of industrial and urban reality, a new, autonomous, challenger of scientific policy is formed. This is, according to the author, a new specific reality, described by the syntagm: technical society.

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