Innovative Entrepreneurship and the Post-Soviet Path-Dependency of Russian Science

Author(s): Irina Olimpieva
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 155
Pages: 15-18
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2014

This article examines the peculiarities of innovative entrepreneurship in Russia. The institutional path dependency of Russian science is viewed as one of the crucial factors predetermining the slow progress and low efficiency of innovative entrepreneurship. Using empirical data from a comparative study of techno-entrepreneurship in three countries, this analysis shows how the post-soviet inertia of Russian science is reflected in the particular features of innovative entrepreneurship in Russia.

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