Balalaeva Dina

№ 2, 2012

• POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: BLOCKING OR PROMOTING INNOVATIONS?

  On the basis of the analysis of the innovation production process through the prism of institutional design and rational choice theories D.Balalaeva demonstrates that if the established institutional design aiming at protecting the status quo stays intact, the innovational system of Russia will not develop any further. Breaking through this stalemate necessitates socio-economic changes that will exert influence upon the initial distribution of power in the society and as a result will alter elitist preferences. According to the author, this process might be accelerated through the collective action undertaken by the civil society and, in particular, by the Russian scientists, aiming at the protection of intellectual property rights and improvement of science status within the society.

  DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2012-65-2-44-59