Green Post-Communism?: Environmental Aid, Polish Innovation and Evolutionary Political Economics

by Mikael Sandberg

Overview

This book asks whether foreign aid can help post-communist societies to steer their technological innovation systems in more environmentally sound directions. Mikael Sandberg examines the legacy of Soviet-type innovation systems, then looks at opportunities for greener innovations in post-communist Poland, considering:* institutional transformation

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134706402
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/03/1998
Series:	Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mikael Sandberg

Table of Contents

Preface List of Figures List of Tables 1. Towards 'Greener' Post-Communism? An Evolutionary Perspective on Political-Economics of Innovation 2. 'Soviet-Type' Implants of Innovation 3. Post-Communist Poland as Habitat for Greener Innovations: Institutional Transformation and Environmental Investment Incentives 4. First Environmental Aid Projects: Seeds of Greener Innovations 5. 'Domesticating' Environmental Aid in Poland 6. Innovation under Post-Communism: Survival of the Greenest? Appendices Notes Bibliography Index