This book brings together the opening addresses of the first four professors of the Centre of Applied Labour Market Research and Innovation at Hanze University Groningen, the Netherlands. The Centre started in 2008.

Before the change of the system in 1989 decisions were made by the communist state-party and all citizens of Hungary had to do was simply obeying these decisions; publicly questioning the communist rule was not done. What followed in the years after was a somewhat passive state of mind. Consequently, …