ZAŠTO ODLAZIMO?
WHY ARE WE LEAVING?

Summary/Abstract: Research into the professional status of young Croatian scientists, conducted in 1998, has opened the question of the exodus of scientists. According to the opinions of scientific and wider community, it has long surpassed the limits of normal and desirable socio-spacial mobility of this professional group. At the end of the questionnaire, the participants gave free answers about the drain of scientists to foreign countries, regardless of personal intentions. The analysis showed the full complexity of links of social environment and local scientific community with the phenomenon of the scientists' drain. Various aspects of their departure from the country have emerged by grouping together the individual answers, according to the logic of their content. Thus, one can speak about the emigrating tradition, allocation of funds for transfers to areas of greater prosperity, brain circulation, war and post-war etiology, but before all else, about the unsatisfactory treatment of sciences by the society and about the hierarchical organization of scientific and research activities. In that context, the treatment of younger scientists by the senior, established scientists, particularly in their position of mentors, and in transferring knowledge and experience is especially emphasized.

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