Electrotechnology: Management of an Amalgamation (Firm) and Adoption of Innovations

D. Levchuk and E. Vyshinskaya of the All-Union Research Institute in Moscow prepared this paper for the case study on electrotechnology, which is being undertaken by the Innovation Management Task. Its main purpose it to outline some major problems related to the management of innovation in the field of electrotechnology, especially those encountered at the level of the firm. The problems and possible tasks for the case study described in the paper are of an economic and managerial rather than technical nature, in accordance with the spirit of IIASA research, especially in the Management and Technology Area. This paper is intended to provide support for the selection of problems for the case study that would be of mutual interest to Eastern and Western countries