Title: Debates over Soviet Industrial policy.
Supervisor: Professor Peter Nolan
Darwin College
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Abstract: A system, which brought together science, technology,
industry, education and social policy, played a fundamental role in
emergence of the USSR in the global arena after WWII as an advanced
industrial and technological actor. A key goal of this research is
operationalize academic insights, related to the relationship between
science, engineering, technology and innovation in conjunction with
educational and social policy, into practical frameworks, as evident in
the success of the Soviet industrial policy. Unlike a conventional
consideration of innovation tools, as emerging from the economic
mechanisms, this paper tries to establish and understand the connection
from Science (as grasping principles of nature) to Engineering
(application of Science) and to Technology and Innovation (making
Engineering useful for public good and/or commercial gain) in the Soviet
import substitution policy. Development of science, education and social
policy is considered in the thesis as a game-changing factor as it
replaced the practice of the technology transfer prevalent during and
after industrialisation drive of the 1930’s. A new high technological
reality of microelectronics, nuclear energy, space exploration programme
and other phenomena which emerged as a result of the sophisticated
intertwining of science and technology as well as social policy. The
thesis aims to understand how these various policies were developed
independently and brought together to achieve specific aims of the
Soviet national development.
Research Interests
Chokan Laumulin is also Research Fellow of CCAF