Lonely Ideas : Can Russia Compete?
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (229 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I The Problem: Why Can't Russia, after Three Centuries of Trying, Modernize? -- 1 The Early Arms Industry: Early Achievement, Later Slump -- 2 Railroads: Promise and Distortion -- 3 The Electrical Industry: Failed Inventors of the Nineteenth Century -- 4 Aviation: A Frustrated Master, a Deformed Industry -- 5 Soviet Industrialization: The Myth That It Was Modernization -- 6 The Semiconductor Industry: Unheralded and Unrewarded Russian Pioneers -- 7 Genetics and Biotechnology: The Missed Revolution -- 8 Computers: Victory and Failure -- 9 Lasers: Genius and Missed Opportunities -- 10 The Exceptions and What They Prove: Software, Space, Nuclear Power -- II What Are the Causes of the Problem? -- 11 The Attitudinal Question -- 12 The Political Order -- 13 Social Barriers -- 14 The Legal System -- 15 Economic Factors -- 16 Corruption and Crime -- 17 The Organization of Education and Research -- III Can Russia Overcome Its Problem Today? Russia's Unique Opportunity -- 18 Creating New Foundations and Research Universities -- 19 RUSNANO (Nanotechnology) and Skolkovo (a New Technology City) -- 20 How Russia Could Break Out of Its Three-Centuries-Old Trap -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Notes -- Glossary of Names -- Index -- Images.
An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern.
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Technological innovations-Russia (Federation). Technology and state-Russia (Federation). Research, Industrial-Russia (Federation). Industrialization-Russia (Federation). High technology industries-Russia (Federation).