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  • As the Soviet economy recovered from WWII devastation, economic officials struggled to design better incentives for promoting rapid technological progress in industry. They created model contracts for R&D work hoping to improve Soviet industry's relatively mediocre performance in using new technologies. This article describes the problems encountered in making model R&D contracts into an effective tool for promoting industrial innovation in the USSR. At the same time model R&D contracts were being established, a more radical reform, a "socialist license," was proposed by an official at the Soviet patent office (State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries), an agency whose top management came from the military-industrial complex. These proposed licenses gave R&D organizations greater financial benefits from new technologies by allowing licensing fees that related to cost savings and quality improvements. Economic officials, however, rejected the reform, viewing it as a challenge to the Communist Party's central planning authority. R&D contracts succeeded primarily in the educational ministry (MinVuz) and Academy of Sciences institutes, linking them more closely to industry, especially to facilities in the military-industrial complex. (xsd:string)
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  • 1984 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 1984 (xsd:gyear)
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  • R&D Contracts in the Soviet Union (xsd:string)
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  • Konferenzbeitrag (xsd:string)
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  • Science and Technology in the Soviet Union: Proceedings of a Conference, July 26-27, 1984 (xsd:string)
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  • urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-73402-3 ()