By Mikael Sandberg
This booklet asks even if international reduction might help post-communist societies to lead their technological innovation platforms in additional environmentally sound instructions. Mikael Sandberg examines the legacy of Soviet-type innovation platforms, then seems to be at possibilities for greener options in post-communist Poland, considering:* institutional transformation and environmental funding incentives * the patience and unfold of the 1st environmental reduction tasks * the adoption of nationwide atmosphere regulations and the function of reduction of their implementation * proof of adjusting innovation structures in significant and japanese Europe
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Do post-Communist countries take Enos’s seventh stage? If postCommunism has moved politicians from the driver’s seat of history to proponents of competing ‘domestication’ strategies, we need to look not only for productivity and competitiveness but for successful breeding. Greener post-Communism? While Marxism cannot help in understanding the unviability of Soviet-type systems and their post-Communist transition, Darwinism of innovations in 26 TOWARDS A ‘GREENER’ POST-COMMUNISM? my view can. The purpose of this initial chapter has been to give an evolutionary rather than revolutionary political economy a chance by trying to apply Darwinism to understand the political economic dynamics of institutions, the technological trajectories and the evolution within systems, including the role played by learning processes in organisations and national systems under institutional constraints.
Knowledge confers an ability to recognise the value of new information; assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends. These abilities collectively constitute what we call a firm’s ‘absorptive capacity’. (Cohen and Levinthal 1990:128) Successful technology assimilation is considered by Cohen and Levinthal to be a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for creative innovation. e. going from a Soviet-type to a commercial imitation. Polish learning from environmental aid, as we will see in this book, indicates the degree to which post-Communism has already acquired this capability of commercial imitation, and has thereby overcome Soviet-type monopoly imitation.
The rest of the book addresses these questions from an empirical point of view. Chapters will therefore focus first on Soviet benchmarks (Chapter 2) as a basis for assessing the post-Communist pioneer, Poland, as an institutional ‘habitat’ for environmental innovations and investments (Chapter 3). e. further ‘green’ innovation. e. produced systems ‘responses’ and ‘rewards’ in Deutsch terminology. The last chapter (Chapter 6) sums up the results and provides some additional data on the potential for post-Communist creative and greener innovation paths, particularly emphasising the importance of a post-Communist Deutschian ‘drive’ towards greener innovation.
