ABSTRACT

This book asks whether foreign aid can help post-communist societies to steer their technological innovation systems in more environmentally sound directions. Mikael Sandberg examines the legacy of Soviet-type innovation systems, then looks at opportunities for greener innovations in post-communist Poland, considering:* institutional transformation

chapter 1|28 pages

TOWARDS A ‘GREENER’ POST-COMMUNISM?

An evolutionary perspective on the political economics of innovation

chapter 2|17 pages

‘SOVIET-TYPE’ IMITATIVE INNOVATION

chapter 3|29 pages

POST-COMMUNIST POLAND AS HABITAT FOR GREENER INNOVATIONS

Institutional transformation and environmental investment incentives

chapter 4|35 pages

FIRST ENVIRONMENTAL AID PROJECTS

Seeds of greener innovations?

chapter 6|16 pages

INNOVATION UNDER POST-COMMUNISM

Survival of the greenest?