Implementing “Sustainable Estonia 21,” a strategy for sustainable development commissioned by the Government and formulated as the joint effort of a number of academicians, and business, technology and environmental analysts in 2002-2003, has been delayed by weak political will.<\/p>\n
The strategy – comprising the essential ideas for Estonia to become a knowledge-based society – is sharply critical of the current situation in society, i.e. of low salaries, of the development model of the low-technology and non-interventionist state. The transformation into a knowledge society entails a paradigm shift and requires diverse and abundant resources. The coalition’s plan to reduce taxes does not render possible sufficient financing of the transformation from the national budget.<\/p>\n
The article addresses the principal problems of eight fields, the solution of which would take us closer to integrating into the Lisbon process in earnest.<\/p>\n
Estonian social scientists have an excellent research objective – transforming a post-Soviet transitional society into a knowledge-based society via an extremely liberal development stage against the background of the accession to the European Union.<\/p>\n