TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graham,Loren R.
TI  - Lonely ideas: can Russia compete? 
SN  - 9780262019798 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
AV  - T 173.5 G739l 2013
U1  - 338.947 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Innovaciones tecnológicas
KW  - Federación Rusa
KW  - Technology and state
KW  - Research, Industrial
KW  - Investigación industrial
KW  - Industrialization
KW  - Industrialización
KW  - High technology industries
KW  - Industria de alta tecnología
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index; p. 1. The problem : why can't Russia, after three centuries of trying, modernize? -- The early arms industry : early achievement, later slump -- Railroads : promise and distortion -- The electrical industry : failed inventors of the nineteenth century -- Aviation : a frustrated master, a deformed industry -- Soviet industrialization : the myth that it was modernization -- The semiconductor industry : unheralded and unrewarded russian pioneers -- Genetics and biotechnology : the missed revolution -- Computers : victory and failure -- Lasers : genius and missed opportunities -- The exceptions and what they prove : software, space, nuclear power -- p. 2. What are the causes of the problem? -- The attitudinal question -- The political order -- Social barriers -- The legal system -- Economic factors -- Corruption and crime -- The organization of education and research -- p. 3. Can Russia overcome its problem today? Russia's unique opportunity -- Creating new foundations and research universities -- RUSNANO (nanotechnology) and Skolkovo (a new technology city) -- How Russia could break out of its three-centuries-old trap
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