Learning from Capitalists: A Study of Soviet Assimilation of Western TechnologyTechnology assimilation as an outcome of a nation's acquisition of foreign technology has not been explicity interpreted the way assimilation is normally understood - assimilation of knowledge and behaviour in an individual's cognitive development, or assimilation as a means for organisms' enhanced control of the environment. Why not consider technology assimilation as a process by which nations learn from existing technology abroad, thereby not only developing domestic civilian industry but also enhancing their control of the external, international environment by means of military - technical expertise? Soviet assimilation of Western technology, as one major example of this process, is both a means for domestic industrial modernization and a way in which the USSR strengthens its military power. analysis based on the conceptual framework indicated above. It suggests new directions in technology assimilation data analysis, and presents further insights into how Western technology is assimilated in the USSR. problems of assimilation occur, which Soviet countermeasures there are, and how the USSR and Sweden adapt to international technology trade restraints. |
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SOVIET ASSIMILATION OF WESTERN | 1 |
The Suggested Model of Analysis | 11 |
Marketing | 19 |
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accomodation acquisitions adaptation ASEA assimilation of Western assimilation process bill capacity Chem & Petro chemical CoCom concluded contract countries Defense delivery domestic East-West Trade embargoes end-user equipment export control factors Finland five-year plan Food foreign technology Gosplan Gossnab Ibid incorporation and diffusion innovation installation investment Iron & Steel irrel Italy Japan lead-times levels machinery Medvedev mill Chem Ministry of Foreign Moscow nations Nato negotiations Parrott percent perestroika Petro Dm Petrol & Gas plant agreements plant imports plant technology plant transfer agreements priorities problems production projects proposal Pulp & Paper Rauma-Repola relations sectors Soviet assimilation Soviet Economic Soviet Economic Development Soviet Foreign Trade Soviet industrial Soviet military Soviet Union Stockholm supplier supply Svetogorsk Sweden Swedish Swedish corporations Swedish exports Swedish-Soviet technical technology assimilation technology imports technology trade Technology Transfer transfer form USSR Ust-Ilimsk variables West Western technology world market