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.

DORA BORBÉLY 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 WÓJCIK Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University, Poland