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Dismal economics hold back technological innovation. Implosion of the economy. The economy of innovation. Barter replaces cash transactions. Role of small business. Technology at the regional level. The long and uncertain road to prosperity. -- Struggling to embrace modern technologies. Living with the Soviet legacy. Russian enterprises and innovation. Preferential treatment for oversized scientific centers. Innovation at the micro-level. New ways to turn a profit. The future outlook -- Profiting from investments in military technology. Declining market niche for Russian armaments. The dual-use issue. Realities of industrial conversion. Controlling leakage of sensitive items. Whither Russian military technologies? -- The money trail : finders keepers. Sources of finance. Protecting income streams flowing from the west. Roofs for businesses in Russia. Privatization and the enterprise managers. Bankers and the flow of money. Multiple challenges -- Long-term patent protection and short-term tax relief. Patents, copyrights, and hope for brighter days. International sharing of intellectual property rights. The tax man cometh. Taxation and technical assistance from abroad. Other hurdles in carrying out international programs. A legal environment to facilitate innovation -- Redirection and erosion of Russian brainpower. New income streams for 60,000 weaponeers. Growing pressure on weaponeers. An aging manpower base for space exploration. Widespread decline of the research and development workforce. External brain drain. Role of Russian technical universities. Future of the Russian manpower base -- Sixty-five science cities with 3 million people. Innovating for profit in Siberia. Science cities encircling Moscow. Ten nuclear cities. Cities that supported biological defense activities. Future of the science cities -- Three nuclear cities with an abundance of technologies. An experimental science city under market conditions : Obninsk. Astride the Transiberian Railway : Zarechny. Diversification of research in the southern Urals : Snezhinsk. Outlook for the three cities -- U.S. efforts to contain dangerous technologies while promoting foreign investments. DOE's support of technology commercialization. DOD's programs to redirect Russian technologies. The international space station and the aerospace complex. Promoting interests of U.S. companies. Whither cooperation? -- The revival of Russian technology. Political and economic challenges. Implementing a realistic technology policy. Showstoppers : increasing corruption and declining health. Disproving the hypotheses. |
