The Changing Soviet Technostructure (Infrastructural Support)

该项目将审查、评估和分析有关苏联科学和工程劳动力的教育和利用的新的和前所未有的数据来源。将汇编关于苏联科学家和工程师(S/E的)的适当数据，并将与美国的类似数据进行比较。苏联的科技基础设施和数据收集系统正在发生重大变化。本项目将研究这些变化中的一些，以及它们对解释S和恩智浦整体能力的影响。苏联的科技数据收集系统也发生了重大变化。该项目将帮助评估、分析和解释数据可用性、定义和数据收集系统方面的变化。根据国家科学基金会和苏联科学院之间的谅解备忘录，该项目涉及合作研究的八个领域之一。在科学政策领域，科学和工程指标是高度优先的，而关于S员工的信息是衡量一个国家S能力的关键指标。该项目将帮助国家科学基金会访问和分析S/E人员现在可以获得的大量数据，为这些数据建立基线，并确定关键信息差距。该项目还与国家科学基金会扩大其科学和工程指标国际数据库的目标有关。

This project will review, evaluate, and analyze new and unprecedented sources of data on the education and utilization of the Soviet science and engineering workforce. Appropriate data on Soviet scientists and engineers (S/E's) will be compiled and comparisons will be made with similar data for the United States. Major changes are occurring in the Soviet science and technology infrastructure and data collection systems. This project will examine some of these changes and their implications for inter- preting overall S&E capabilities. There are also major changes occurring in the Soviet science and technology data collection systems. This project will help to evaluate, analyze, and interpret changes in the data availability, definitions, and data collection systems. This project is related to one of the eight areas targeted for cooperative research under the Memorandum of Understanding between NSF and the USSR Academy of Sciences. Science and engineering indicators is a high priority under the science policy area and information on the S&E workforce is a critical indicator of a country's S&E capability. This project would help NSF access and analyze the large amount of data now becoming available on S/E personnel, establish a baseline for such data, and identify critical information gaps. The project is also related to the NSF goal of expanding its international database of science and engineering indicators.