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Soviet Union [USSR] Financing
Decisions about the financing of Soviet science and technology
involved many of the same high-level party and government organs
involved in the policy-making and planning processes. One aspect of
these processes has been the determination of resources to be
allocated to specific science and technology programs. That
determination has been made by the CPSU Politburo, the Council of
Ministers, GKNT, and the Academy of Sciences. The Ministry of
Finance has made specific science and technology allocations in
accordance with approved plans. The State Bank (Gosudarstvennyi
bank--Gosbank) has issued credit for science and technology
development projects.
Several other organizations were involved in the administration
of Soviet science and technology. The State Committee for Material
and Technical Supply (Gosudarstvennyi komitet po material'no-
tekhnicheskomu snabzheniiu--Gossnab) was responsible for supplying
science and technology organizations with needed equipment and
instruments. The State Committee for Labor and Social Problems
(Gosudarstvennyi komitet po trudu i sotsial'nym voprosam--
Goskomtrud) was concerned with labor and wage issues. The State
Committee for Standards (Gosudarstvennyi komitet po standartam--
Gosstandart) assigned and directed the development of nationwide
technical and economic standards. It approved new standards and
oversaw the adherence of science and technology organizations to
the standards. The State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries
(Gosudarstvennyi komitet po delam izobretenie i otkrytii--
Goskomizobretenie) maintained a state registry of inventions and
discoveries, and it issued authors' certificates and patents. The
All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
(Vsesoiuznyi institut nauchnoi i tekhnicheskoi informatsii--VINITI)
functioned as an information center containing abstracts of
worldwide scientific and technical literature.
Data as of May 1989
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