UTICAJ NADOLAZEĆE GLOBALNE EKONOMSKO-FINANSIJSKE KRIZE NA ODLAZAK MLADIH INŽENJERA IZ ZEMALJA ZAPADNOG BALKANA/THE IMPACT OF THE COMING GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRISIS ON THE DEPARTURE OF YOUNG ENGINEERS FROM THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

As already known, the Western Balkan countries are already25 years in the process of transition. Unfortunately, this transition process did not impact our region too much. Because of the war actions in the period 1991-1999 of the last century, when the whole world had been advancing technologically, the Western Balkan countries stagnated and fell about 30 years behind, relative to the leading technical and technological countries in the world. It was the most obvious in the industry that is significantly oldfashioned relative to the today`s productional standards and highly risky for the today`s ecological standards. The best example is that we still use machinery included in the production process 40 years ago. This technological lag in the industry caused scientific lag, comparing to the world scientific community, primarily in engineering sciences. The second global economic-financial crisis in 2007 additionally contributed to the lagging comparing to the Western world, something that created sort of pressure on additional technological lag. The new approaching world economic crisis that is foreseen in 2020 will certainly cause another large lag from the world scientific and technological advancement, and it could have a huge impact on the Western Balkan economies.