The Planning and Management of Energy-Related Research and Development in the U.S.S.R.: Science Policy Working Group Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. Science and Technology Exchange Program

摘要

This is a combined report based on the notes of members of a four-person US team of specialists on energy-related R&D who visited the USSR in October 1979 under the auspices of the US-USSR Science Policy Working Group. The purpose of the visit was to study the organization, management, and development in Soviet energy R&D institutions. The team had discussions at the Czerzhinskiy All-Union Research Institute for Heat Engineering, the Krzhizhanovskiy Institute of Power Engineering, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Electrical Machine-Building, the Scientific Research Institute of Direct Current, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, and the Leningrad Electro-Technical Production Association (Eelektrosila).