Centralization and Freedom of Creativity in Science and Technology

Abstract

The cardinal reforms of the next few years must encompass all branches of the economy in accordance with the concept of acceleration of our society's socioeconomic growth on the basis of scientific-technological progress. This concept, first formulated by the April 1985 Plenum of the CPSU, was developed and concretized by the Twenty-seventh Party Congress. The need has also arisen to develop fundamentally new approaches to the development of science and technology themselves, to the use of scientific-technological potential, and to the character of state management of scientific-technological progress.