Was the Soviet Union Innovative? (Time Stamps/Subtitles)

Lebedenko, S. (2024). Open Innovation under authoritarianism: The case of the Soviet Union. The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/jwip.12318

Abstract
The Soviet Union was a productive and technologically developed economy. It achieved a remarkable transformation from a feudalistic society to an advanced industrial society. How was it able to do this? This article argues that such rapid industrialisation was possible because the Soviets invested in legal institutions that created a special kind of open and highly coordinated innovation system confined to national borders. These legal institutions remain underappreciated in Western intellectual property scholarship. The article reassesses the Soviet legal institutions, by explaining their functions and effects on knowledge flows. It also conceptualises the Soviet reward system as having elements of an ‘economy of esteem’. The article is informative not only as a revisited historical account on the Soviet regulation of innovation, but also as one that teaches much about the modern models of innovation in market economies.

Time Stamps
00:00:00 SOVIET UNION INNOVATION
00:00:11 ABSTRACT
00:01:08 1. INTRODUCTION
00:09:52 2. SOVIET LEGAL INSTITUTIONS FOR INNOVATION
00:45:17 3. THE SOVIET INNOVATION NETWORKS
01:01:19 4. INCENTIVES AND THE ECONOMY OF ESTEEM
01:05:00 5. CONCLUSION

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Author's Biography
Dr Svitlana Lebedenko is a Hauser Post-Doctoral Global Fellow (2023–2024) affiliated with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at the New York University School of Law and a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow (2022–2024) affiliated with the Department of Law and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on the regulation of technology markets, intellectual property law, and innovation systems. She holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, where she was awarded the EUI Special Doctoral Fellowship in Law (Hans Kelsen Grant). She is trained in information technology and intellectual property law, comparative, international, and European Union law.

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