Abstract
For its level of economic development, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) possessed a research and development (R&D) system that was impressive in terms of personnel and funding, yet the country’s achievements in technological innovation were, with the partial exception of military industry, unimpressive. Following the collapse of Communism, the R&D system substantially contracted in scale. After a decade of post-Communist transformation in Russia, funding began to recover but the new market conditions did not prove conducive to successful innovation on a significant scale. The National Innovation System of present-day Russia is still marked profoundly by the Soviet legacy.
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Cooper, J. (2018). Soviet and Russian Research, Development and Innovation. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2289
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