The economic program of the transition had a hard time owing to the perturbations that strongly affected the Russian economy during the period from 1990 to 2000. This fieldwork seeks mainly to raise questions about the resources that small entrepreneurs mobilized to preserve their businesses at...

This article studies the current development of the Russian innovation system, using a typology derived from a 'national innovation systems' framework. The institutional framework for research and development in Russia has changed. Public resources devoted to R&D have increased significantly....