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Innovation and the diffusion of new production technologies in Soviet industry

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:5317022
Chapter one of the dissertation describes the institutions and mechanisms involved in the innovation process in Soviet industry and surveys empirical research on this process. A distinction is drawn between the decentralized and centralized procedures which the Soviets employ to diffuse new production technologies. This chapter also critiques some of the analyses of the innovation process put forward by Western analysts. Chapter two examines the system of financial incentives designed to induce enterprises to adopt new production technologies and the effects which the regulation of enterprise incomes has on the payoffs to new technology adoption. A formal model is developed in which a regulator periodically reviews the distribution of incomes of two enterprises comprising an industry and redistributes incomes between them to control this distribution. Chapter three examines the important role which authorities superior to the enterprises play in planning the diffusion of new technologies. An optimal planning problem is formulated in which an industrial planner, who is responsible for producing some output, must determine the diffusion path of a process innovation.
Research Organization:
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (USA)
OSTI ID:
5317022
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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