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Some three years ago the editor of the daily newspaper Népszabadság invited me to write an article about the new post Cold War motive factor in technical development. I declined, explaining that I had no clear perception of the problem. Undoubtedly the Cold War was an enhancing factor in R&D and technological progress. In advanced industrial countries military accomplishments have been relatively quickly adopted by the civil sector, which led to a major increase in the development of transport, telecommunications, computer-technology, etc. In the Soviet Union and the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe — because of the political and economic climate — there has not been a similarly open relationship between the military and civil sectors. But even in this region, with slight time lags and many complex transfers, military and space research have made their mark on technical progress.
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Farkas, J. (1996). New Challenges after the Cold War. In: Gummett, P., Boutoussov, M., Farkas, J., Rip, A. (eds) Military R&D after the Cold War. NATO ASI Series, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1730-9_4
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