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First, I think the main feature of science and technology in the Soviet Union has been the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. The Academy of Sciences is a unique organization sort of a combination of a scientific society and a ministry for fundamental research.
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Now I would like to explain our applied research organizations and the system of management in applied research. For a very long time, since just after World War II, we developed a very inflexible system of managing applied research in the Soviet Union.
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The government has now decided to support this big area with subsidies from a special fund for the coming two or three years to support laboratories and institutes doing applied research and making technology transfers to industry. I think everybody knows that Soviet industry for a very long time was absolutely uninterested in accepting new technology.
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But that is not the only reason for the brain drain; I think a more important reason concerns research conditions. An experiment that takes about one month to do in the United States takes about one year in the Soviet Union, on average, for there are the problems of computing, of experimental facilities, of service, and of getting materials in the Soviet Union.
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The first priority for the money that the State Committee on Science and Technology receives is state-funded research projects. In 1988 there were 14 such specific research programs identified, end four more were added Soviet Union 67 Not only can we lose our scientific potential but we can lose our best people, and this drain can have a dramatic effect on the general atmosphere of the country.
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Pandolfi of the European Community mentioned that there is a series of legislation supporting scientific research within the European Community. Unfortunately, I could not name for you a parallel item of legislation in the Soviet Union-one that outlines the competence and the authority of a particular scientific institution or particular organs and so forth for scientific research.
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They have begun to function very efficiently. I don't have the exact figure, but, roughly speaking, I know that the entire volume of scientific works published or created by the cooperative sector last year equaled the volume Soviet Union 69 As we strive toward the achievement of a legally based social system in our country, we realize that we need a legislativef oundationf or scientific and technical progress.
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Of course, that complicates the actual decisionmaking process, but this is only an administrative question. 70 Future National Research Policies
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