The gap between East and West Germany widened considerably over time. This divergence in innovation activity suggests that current East-West differences may be indirectly rooted in this socialist legacy and the sudden shock transformation that occurred upon reunification… East German innovation activity fell behind especially in technologies where both East and West Germany were specialized in before re-unification…integrating the two innovation systems mainly benefited the West.
Fritsch, et al., 2023, ‘Shades of a socialist legacy? Innovation activity in East and West Germany 1877-2014’ (Jena Economic Research Papers), p. 1
Latest
Marton, et al., 2024, Scientific Associations and Actors of Science Diplomacy, in: The Palgrave Handbook of Non-State Actors in East-West Relations
Franc, 2024, The Showcase of Czechoslovak Science: The Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, in: Organisationsformen der Erkenntnisgewinnung: Organisatorische Gestaltung und Wissensproduktion in der außeruniversitären Forschung
Banabic (ed.), 2023-2024, History of Romanian Technology and Industry, vol. 1-2
Scranton, 2022/2023, Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, vol. 1 and 2.
Olšáková, 2022, Environmental Journalism? Radio Free Europe, Charter 77 and the Making of an Environmental Agenda, in: Environment and History
2010-2020
Kurtović, 2020, When All That Is Solid Does Not Melt into Air: Labor, Politics and Materiality in a Bosnian Detergent Factory, in: PoLAR
Bentley, 2019, Research and Technology in the former German Democratic Republic
Bussière, et al., 2019, The European Commission 1986-2000: history and memories of an institution, chapter 20
Ballon, 2018 [movie]
Michael Kopsidis and Martin Ivanov, 2017, Industrialization and De-industrialization in Southeast Europe, 1870–2010, in: The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871 The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871
Baltes, 2017, ‘The critical situation of R&D in Romania: the main cause of the Romanian researchers’ migration’, in: East-West Migration in the European Union
Hodges, 2017, Cosmologies in Transition: Science and the Politics of Academia after Yugoslavia
Rindzevičiūtė, 2016, The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World [concerns the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)]
Hollings, 2015, Scientific Communication Across the Iron Curtain
Muehlenbeck, 2015, Czechoslovakia in Africa, 1945-1968
Wedel, 2015, Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989–1998
Oreskes and Krige, 2014, Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Szobi, 2014, Between ideology and pragmatism: the ČSSR, the GDR and West European companies in the 1970s and 1980s, in: European Review of History
OECD, 2013, Assessment of the National Innovation System of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Report in support of the formulation of a National Innovation Strategy (c.f.. OECD, 1976, Reviews of National Science Policy – Yugoslavia)
Cortada, 2012, Information Technologies in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1949–1989, in: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
2000-2010
Reynolds, 2010, ‘Science, technology and the Cold War’, in: The Cambridge History of the Cold War
Blagojević, 2009, Knowledge Production at the Semiperiphery: a Gender Perspective
Pavlínek, 2008, A Successful Transformation?: Restructuring of the Czech Automobile Industry
Schramm, 2008, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft in DDR und BRD: die Kategorie Vertrauen in Innovationsprozessen
Augustine, 2007, Red Prometheus: engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990
Stokes, 2006, ‘Von Trabbis und Acetylen – die Technikentwicklung’, in: Überholen ohne einzuholen: die DDR-Wirtschaft als Fussnote der deutschen Geschichte?
Högselius, 2005, The Dynamics of Innovation in Eastern Europe: Lessons from Estonia
Meske, 2004, From System Transformation to European Integration: Science and Technology in Central and Eastern Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Gerovitch, 2002, From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: a History of Soviet Cybernetics
Etzkowitz, et al., 2000, Athena Unbound: the Advancement of Women in Science and Technology, pp. 218-220
Pavlínek and Pickles, 2000, Environmental Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe
von Hirschhausen and Bitzer, 2000, The Globalization of Industry and Innovation in Eastern Europe: from Post-socialist Restructuring to International Competitiveness
Kotz, 2000, Socialism and Innovation (University of Massachusetts)
1990-2000
Ritter, et al., 1999, Antworten auf die amerikanische Herausforderung: Forschung in der Bundesrepublik und der DDR in den “langen” siebziger Jahren
Pickvance, 1998, Democracy and Environmental Movements in Eastern Europe: a Comparative Study of Hungary And Russia
Meske, et al., 1997, Die Integration von ostdeutschen Blaue-Liste-Instituten in die deutsche Wissenschaftslandschaft
Gummett, et al., 1996, Military R&D after the Cold War: Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe
Tchalakov, 1996, Industrial development and ecological risks, 1945-1990, in: Bulgaria at the Crossroads, pp. 245-258
*Mayntz, et al. (eds.), 1995, Transformation mittel- und osteuropäischer Wissenschaftssysteme
Holland and Kuhlmann, 1995, Systemwandel und industrielle Innovation Studien zum technologischen und industriellen Umbruch in den neuen Bundesländern
National Science Foundation, 1994, Science, Technology, and Democracy in the Cold War and After: A Strategic Plan for Research in Science and Technology Studies
Stoklasa, 1994, Environmental Problems in Central and Eastern Europe: the Possible Role of International Policy and Market-Oriented Instruments, in: Eastern European Development and Public Policy
Carter and Turnock, 1993, Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe
Bentley, 1992, Research and technology in the former German Democratic Republic
Brine, 1992, Comecon: The Rise and Fall of an International Socialist Organization
Popper, 1991, Science & Technology in Eastern Europe after the Flood: Rejoining the World, RAND
Mark Schapiro; and Katrin Zielke, 1990, respectively, ‘The New Danube’ (pp. 50-52 and pp. 74-76); and The Green Curtain’ (p. 53), in: Mother Jones (April/May 1990)
Mehrotra, 1990, India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer
1980-1990
Sandberg, 1989, Learning from Capitalists: a Study of Soviet Assimilation of Western Technology
Schweitzer, 1989, Techno-diplomacy: US-Soviet Confrontations in Science and Technology
*Darvas (ed.), 1988, Science and Technology in Eastern Europe (Longman Guide to World Science and Technology)
Bradshaw, 1988, Soviet Asian-Pacific trade and the regional development of the Soviet Far East, in: Soviet Geography
Hanson and Pavitt, 1987, The Comparative Economics of Research Development and Innovation in East and West: a Survey
WGBH, 1987, How Good is Soviet Science? [film]. Quite condescending on part of the American presenter.
Stanislaw Gomulka (ed.), 1986, Growth, Innovation and Reform in Eastern Europe
Vladimir Sobell, 1984, The Red Market: Industrial Co-operation and Specialization in Comecon
Carter, 1984, ‘Pollution in Prague: Environmental control in a centrally planned socialist country’, in: Cities
Parrott, 1983, Politics and Technology in the Soviet Union
Cocks, 1981, Science Policy in the Soviet Union, vol. II (“Systems thinking is a prominent feature of the research management environment in the United States…in the USSR, a similar systems movement burgeoned in the 1970s”, p. 321)
*Hanson, 1981, Trade and Technology in Soviet-Western Relations. Studies in Soviet History and Society. “The evidence reviewed in the preceding five chapters suggests that imports of Western machinery and know-how over the past two decades or so have been neither a major nor, on the other hand, a negligibly small source of Soviet economic growth. Nobody has yet arrived at a precise and reliable quantification of their total impact; but, so far as their impact on the Soviet industrial sector is concerned, it would appear to be hard to make a case for a total net contribution of much more than half a percentage point of annual growth of net industrial output in the 1970s” p. 211.
Levinson, 1980, Vodka-Cola. A fascinating argument, and the author, Charles Levinson, who was an intriguing individual, writing other books such as Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (1971).
Pre-1980
Mathieson, 1979, Japan’s Role in Soviet Economic Growth: Transfer of Technology since 1965
Biographical details of scientists, e.g., Stanislav Brebera (semtex), Ana Aslan (gerontology), Florentina Mosora (biophysics) and György Marx (leptons)
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