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Lonely ideas : can Russia compete?
- Title
- Lonely ideas : can Russia compete? / Loren Graham.
- Author
- Graham, Loren R.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 204 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Technological innovations > Russia (Federation)
- Technology and state > Russia (Federation)
- Research, Industrial > Russia (Federation)
- Industrialization > Russia (Federation)
- High technology industries > Russia (Federation)
- High technology industries
- Industrialization
- Research, Industrial
- Technological innovations
- Technology and state
- Russia (Federation)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index.
- Contents
- I. 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 -- II. 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 -- III. 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.
- Call Number
- JBE 16-237
- ISBN
- 9780262019798
- 0262019795
- LCCN
- 2013009425
- 40022749118
- OCLC
- 830668927
- Author
- Graham, Loren R.
- Title
- Lonely ideas : can Russia compete? / Loren Graham.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: MASSACHUSETTS INST. OF TECHNOLOGY. EXAMINES RUSSIA'S FAILURES TO COMMERCIALIZE AND IMPLEMENT.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022749118
- Research Call Number
- JBE 16-237