made by the State Committee, Gosplan fixes 

 a global sum for the Ukrainian Academy of 

 Sciences for the coming year. This sum in- 

 creases from year to year at a more or less 

 standard rate of four to six percent. 



Once the global sum has been fixed, the in- 

 stitutes of the Ukrainian Academy forward 

 their claims to their Division and to the 

 Presidium, which is aided in its delibera- 

 tion by a special department broken down in- 

 to a subdepartment for overall planning. The 

 Presidium has a number of other special de- 

 partments for finance, capital construction, 

 equipment and accounting. 



Figures are then prepared for each of the 

 three Sections of the Academy which indicate 

 the provisional sum to be made available to 

 them for equipment and for other expenditures. 

 The Vice President of the Academy, responsi- 

 ble for each section, decides on the distri- 

 but ion of funds among the institutes concerned. 



The experience, particularly the virtually automatic 

 increase in annual funding, also demonstrates that 

 budgetary allocations play an important active role 

 at higher levels of aggregation and particularly in 

 Academy fundamental research. There are similar ac- 

 counts regarding research conducted in higher educa- 

 tional institutions. In the 1960s, Wienert notes, 

 there was no relation between the nature of research 

 projects and the available financial means. Research 

 funds were distributed to the VUZy according to the 

 number of departments.^" In general, Zaleski con- 

 cludes that the traditional criteria for allocation 

 are the gross value of work on an historical basis 

 and/or the number of research topics. 27 



Evidence suggests that institutional funding rath- 

 er than project funding is still the predominant prac- 

 tice in Soviet R&D, as is the tendency toward simple 

 aggregate planning and incremental planning "from the 

 achieved level." P. N. Zavlin and a group of science 



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