Inovating in Bulgaria-two cases in the life of a laboratory before and after 1989

摘要

The paper presents the results from the case study of the Central Laboratory of Optical Storage and Processing of Information. The author attempts to reconstruct the two types of heterogeneous network of human and non-human actors. These networks emerged during the process of innovation of two products of the laboratory-holographic plates for art Holography invented in late 1970s, and the rainbow holograms created in early 1990s. The paper analyses the efforts made For arresting the interest of relevant social actors and for "taming" the corresponding non-human agents or their human Representatives. In doing so, some typical problems of the socio-economic of innovation are explored-the financing of the Innovation, the relationships between the research lab and the public institutions and private firms during the process of Innovation. The time lag between the realisation of the two innovations provides a possibility to find out some significant Differences in the innovation network in the 1970s' administrative economy in Bulgaria and the emerging market economy In this country in the early 1990s.