Attila Varga - Professor, Chair of the Department of Economics and Regional Studies at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, Ph.D. (West Virginia University, USA, 1997), awarded by Széchenyi Scholarship (2001). Research assistant professor (Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, 1997-1998), research fellow (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 1998-1999), senior research fellow (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria, 1999-2001). Teaching areas: regional economics, regional economic policy, applied econometrics, microeconomics. Visiting research fellow at the Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University (1997), Max Planck Institute, Jena (2004), Saint Etienne University (2005). Research interest: macroeconomic growth, regional economic development policy, regional innovation systems, the economics of technological change. Professor Varga has published over fifty scholarly articles and book chapters in English and Hungarian. His papers appeared in the Journal of Regional Science, the Journal of Urban Economics, Papers in Regional Science, Regional Studies and Research Policy. He authored and edited four international books and he is also a referee for several major international journals of regional economics and technological change.