Lonely Ideas Can Russia Compete?

Name: Lonely Ideas Can Russia Compete?
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ISBN: 9780262019798

ISBN-10: 0262019795

ISBN-13: 9780262019798

Edition: 2013

Authors: Loren Graham

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When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and foundthat it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epicintellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence inworld technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia iseconomically dependent on gas and oil. In Lonely Ideas, Loren Graham investigatesRussia's long history of technological invention followed by failure to commercialize andimplement.For three centuries, Graham shows, Russia has been adept at developingtechnical ideas but abysmal at benefiting from them. From the seventeenth-century arms…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/13/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.19" wide x 9.25" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.990



Introduction



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



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



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


Acknowledgments


Chronology


Notes


Glossary of Names


Index