the state committee does not possess the authority 

 and means necessary to fulfill its functions. See 

 A. A. Podoprigora, Pravovyye voprosy sozdaniya i vne- 

 dreniya novoy tekhniki (Kiev, 1975), p. 85. In draw- 

 ing up the annual economic plan for 1975 the State 

 Committee on Inventions and Discoveries recommended 

 that 90 inventions and innovations be adopted but the 

 ministries accepted only 9 or 10 percent. See G. 

 Alekseyev, "The Effect Derived from Production," 

 Pravda , September 13, 1976. 



8. Dorokhova, "Sovershenstvovaniye sistemy organov 

 upravleniya naukoy," p. 61. For a more detailed dis- 

 cussion of the GKNT, see the excellent study by Lou- 

 van E. Nolting, The Structure and Functions of the 

 USSR State Committee for Science and Technology , U.S. 

 Bureau of the Census, Foreign Economic Reports, 



No. (Washington, D.C., 1979). 



9. Zaleski et al, Science Policy in the USSR , p. 54, 



10. B. F. Zaitsev, "Struktura organov upravleniya 

 naukoy i tekhnikoy v usloviyakh nauchno-tekhnicheskoy 

 revolyutsii," in Organizatsiya upravleniya (Moscow, 

 1975), p. 36 and V. Disson, "Primeneniye programmno- 

 tselevogo metoda pri reshenii nauchno-tekhnicheskikh 

 problem," Planovoye khozyaystvo , 7 (1977), p. 82. 



11. "USSR Short Answers," pp. 5-7. 



12. Ibid . 



13. Ibid. , p. 8. 



14. Zaleski et al, Science Policy in the USSR , 

 pp. 83-88. 



15. V. A. Rassudovskiy, Gosudarstvennaya organiza- 

 tsiya nauki v SSSR (Moscow: Yuridicheskaya literatura, 

 1971), p. 30 and G. T. Prokhotskiy and V. G. Khryachen- 

 ko, Effektivnost raboty nauchno-issledovatelskikh or- 

 ganizatsii (Minsk, 1973), p. 31. 



16. "USSR Short Answers," p. 8. 



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