ABSTRACT

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

chapter |28 pages

TOWARDS A ‘GREENER’ POST-COMMUNISM?

An evolutionary perspective on the political economics of innovation

chapter |29 pages

POST-COMMUNIST POLAND AS HABITAT FOR GREENER INNOVATIONS

Institutional transformation and environmental investment incentives

chapter |35 pages

FIRST ENVIRONMENTAL AID PROJECTS

Seeds of greener innovations?

chapter |16 pages

INNOVATION UNDER POST-COMMUNISM

Survival of the greenest?