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SUMMARY:Science and Technological Innovation: Can Russia Compete? CRES Re
 search Seminar with Prof. Peter Rutland
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DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to attend the next Cross-Disciplinary Russian
  and Eurasian Studies Network (CRES) Research Seminar:\nWednesday\, 2 Ma
 rch 2016\, 5.00 - 6.20pm\, Mansfield Cooper 2.04\n\nProf. Peter Rutland\
 , Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester / Profes
 sor of Government\, Wesleyan University\n\nScience and Technological Inn
 ovation:  Can Russia Compete?\n\nThe Soviet Union was a leader in scient
 ific innovation. Since 1991 the Soviet scientific legacy has faded\, des
 pite ambitious government efforts to fund R&D and reverse Russia's slide
  into a commodity-exporting economy. Only a handful of Russian firms are
  globally competitive in high-tech fields. Russia's failure to develop a
 n innovation-based economy has deep roots in Russian culture and the ins
 titutional legacies of the Soviet period\, exacerbated by certain pathol
 ogies in Russia's post-Soviet political economy.\n\nPeter Rutland\, Prof
 essor of Government at Wesleyan University\, US\, was awarded the presti
 gious Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at Manchester for 2016.  He auth
 ored two books\, The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union
  (Cambridge University Press\, 1992) and The Myth of the Plan: Lessons o
 f Soviet Planning Experience (Hutchinson\, 1985)\, alongside with many o
 ther publications.  He also edited Business and the State in Contemporar
 y Russia (Westview Press\, 2000). Since 2013 he has been editor in chief
  of Nationalities Papers\, the journal of the Association for the Study 
 of Nationalities (http://nationalities.org)\, and an associate editor of
  Russian Review. He blogs about nationalism around the world at National
 ism Watch (https://nationalismwatch.com).\n\nALL ARE WELCOME!\n
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LOCATION:2.04\, Mansfield Cooper Building\, Manchester
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