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The Role of Industrial Institutes in Creating and Maintaining Russia's Industrial Potential
The Role of Industrial Institutes in Creating and Maintaining Russia's Industrial Potential
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The industrial institutes played a defining role in creating new technologies for all branches of industry. Although the Academy institutes elucidated new scientific principles and natural laws facilitating the creation of new industrial technologies, the industrial institutes bore responsibility for the actual development of these technologies.
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For example, the institute worked out a domestic technology for the dimerization of ethylene in butene and created two production units for obtaining butene as a comonomer in the production of linear polyethylene by the gas-phase method using equipment purchased from the Union Carbide company. For its development work, the institute used a test facility featuring an entire arsenal of experimental equipment.
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All of these events, for which producers were unprepared, were detrimental to the work of factories and hindered the sale of their products. In the chemical industry, the collapse in production also was brought about by the orientation of the chemical industry towards the military-industrial complex, the tradition of using relatively cheap raw materials and human resources, the unjustifiably isolated locations of certain facilities, and centralized planning and distribution.
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STABILIZATION MEASURES UNDERTAKEN BY THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT Issues involving the stewardship of science are now handled by the Ministry for Science and Technology, which was created to replace the Sovietera State Committee on Science and Technology. The ministry prepares the appropriate government decisions on science and creates legislative proposals aimed at maintaining and encouraging scientific activity and protecting intellectual property.
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found to secure work orders after the cut-back of state financing and the termination of investments in the plastics sector. After reviewing its technological research priorities, the institute focused its efforts on developing new projects to improve technologies for producing plastics and polymer composites with enhanced properties or better economic characteristics.
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It perfected several technologies by improving certain domestically invented stages in plastics production processes. For example, as a result of skillful selection of efficient new initiating systems at many plants, the institute has been able to increase the quality and assortment of thin polyethylene while simultaneously enhancing the economic efficiency of production.
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