*The patterns of services growth in transition economies
*Internationalisation of services
*Innovation and services, innovation policy
*Outward FDI in services by Central European countries
*ICT effects and service firms productivity
*Regulation and barriers to competition in services

EU, DG Enterprise, INNO-99-02: Innovation Policy in the Six Applicant Countries, 2000-2001.
PHARE/ACE: EU-integration driven investment networking: Outward foreign direct investment of candidate countries, 2001-2002.
EC/JRC-ICEG, Factors and Impacts in the Information Society- A Prospective Analysis in the Candidate Countries, 2003-2004.
FP7-SERVPPIN, « The Contribution of Public and Private Services to European Growth and Welfare, and the Role of Public –Private Innovation Networks, 2008-2010

Consultancy experience:
UNCTAD, UN/ECE, OECD, European Commission
Member of the European Forum on Services in the Internal Market

*Stare, Metka, 2001. Advancing the Development of Producer Services in Slovenia with Foreign Direct Investment. Service Industries Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 19-34.

*Stare Metka, 2002, The Pattern of Internationalisation of Services in Central European Countries, The Service Industries Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 77-91.

*BUCAR, Maja, STARE, Metka, 2002, Slovenian innovation policy : underexploited potential for growth, Journal of International Relations and Development, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 427-448.

*STARE, Metka, 2003, The Scope of E-commerce in Central and Eastern European Countries Services Trade, Service Industries Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 27-42.

*STARE, Metka, 2003, Service sector outward foreign direct investment: exploiting the advantages in the region. In Svetlicic, M., Rojec, M. (eds.), Facilitating transition by internationalization : outward direct investment from Central European economies in transition, Burlington (VT); Hants: Ashgate, 2003, pp. 77-89.

*BUCAR, Maja, STARE, Metka, 2003, Inovacijska politika male tranzicijske drzave (Inovation Policy of Small Transition Economy), Knjizna zbirka Pravo in gospodarstvo, Ljubljana: Fakulteta za druzbene vede.

*STARE, Metka, Kmet-Zupancic, Rotija, Bucar, Maja, 2004, Slovenia- on the way to the information society, Ljubljana: Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development. http://www.gov.si/zmar/aprojekt/iceg/iceg.php

*STARE, Metka, 2005, TRADE IN SERVICES OR SERVICES IN TRADE: Towards better understanding, CIR Working Paper No.1, Faculty of Social Sciences. http://www.mednarodni-odnosi.si/cmo/WP/CIRWP1_M.%20Stare.pdf

*STARE, Metka, 2005, Regional Landscape of Services in Candidate Countries, Service Industries Journal, Vol. 25, No.4, pp. 477-491.

*STARE, Metka, BUCAR, Maja (eds.), 2005, Ucinki informacijsko-komunikacijskih tehnologij (The Effects of Information-Communication Technologies). Ljubljana: Zalozba FDV.

*STARE, Metka, JAKLIC, Andreja, KOTNIK, Patricia, 2006, Exploiting ICT potential in service firms in transition economies. Service Industries Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 287-302.]

*STARE, Metka, 2006, Outsourcing storitev v okviru razširjene EU: možnosti in priložnosti Slovenije (Outsourcing of Services within the Enlarged EU), Teorija in praksa, vol. 43, no. 1/2, pp. 201-220.

*BUCAR, Maja, STARE, Metka, 2007, From quantity to quality: critical assessment of Slovenia's potential for knowledge-based growth. PIECH, K., RADOSEVIC, S. (eds.). The knowledge-based economy in Central and Eastern Europe: countries and industries in a process of change. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 239-255.

*STARE, Metka, RUBALCABA, Luis, 2007. Research on services : from exploring the "residual" to services science. In: STAUSS, Bernd (ed.). Services science : fundamentals, challenges and future developments. Berlin: Springer, pp. 71-78.

*STARE, Metka, 2007, Service Development in Transition Economies: Achievements and Missing Links, in J. Bryson, P. Daniels (eds.). The Handbook of Service Industries, Edward Elgar.

*STARE, Metka, BUČAR, Maja, 2007. Slovenia. In: Turlea, G., Bogdanowicz, M.(eds.), EU enlargement : economic development and the information society. Brussels: VUBPress, pp. 323-351,

*STARE, Metka, BUČAR, Maja, 2007. Inovacije v storitvah - možnosti slovenskih akterjev v EU? (Innovation in services- the opportunities for Slovenian actors in the EU). IB revija, vol. 41, no. 3/4, pp. 27-39.

*STARE, Metka, JAKLIČ, Andreja, 2008. Transition, regulation and trade in services. Service Industries Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 277 – 290.

*STARE, Metka, RUBALCABA, Luis. International Outsourcing of Services - What Role for Central and East European Countries? Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, forthcoming 2009.

Metka Stare
Centre for International Relations
Faculty of Social Sciences
Kardeljeva ploscad 5
1000 Ljubljana
Tel.: 00 386 1 5805 194
Fax: 00 386 1 5805 109
E-mail : metka.stare@guest.arnes.si