X-Message-Number: 28400
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: Re: Soviet Economy to David Stodolsky (off topic)
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:35:22 -0700

The Soviet era also experienced a goodly amount of inventive problem solving 
and technological innovaton, despite the difficulties in integrating new 
inventions into the centrally planned industrial system. The Soviet patent 
clerk, Genrich Altshuller, had a wealth of the Soviet equivalent of patents 
to study when he formulated his Theory of Solving Inventive Problems, which 
goes by the Russian acronym TRIZ. He also found plenty of working inventors 
in the Soviet Union to help him develop his ideas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrich_Altshuller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ

Many of the technologically-inclined "men of the mind" found opportunities 
to use their talents in the Soviet Union, in other words, instead of "going 
on strike."

Mark Plus

Manage your risk, not your terror.

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