Innovation und Planwirtschaft? (Falk Flade)

»Innovation and Plan Economy? Technological Change in Centrally Planned Economies on the Example of the German Democratic Republic and the People´s Republic of Poland«: The focus of the work is on innovation blockades as well as achievements of selected companies in the German Democratic Republic and the People´s Republic of Poland. Sectors, combines and national institutions are also considered. The work shows that an innovation system typical of planned economies existed in the GDR as well as Poland, although they differed in certain points from each other.

Falk Flade studied Slavistics, East European History and Economics. His diverse activities in academia and teaching brought him to various institutions in Central and Eastern Europe. He received his Ph.D. on the subject of "energy infrastructures in the Eastern Bloc". The present field of research is the history of economy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe. As part of his habilitation, he dealt with "Modernization blockades in science and economy of the GDR and Poland". This resulted in the monograph "Innovation und Planwirtschaft? Technologischer Wandel in zentral geplanten Ökonomien am Beispiel der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik und Volksrepublik Polen".

Buch (Paperback), Deutsch, 340 Seiten