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2009 | 4(10) | 5-37

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Innowacje i dynamika. Zależności pomiędzy systemami a postępem technologicznym

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Innovation and Dynamism. Interaction between Systems and Technical Progress

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Znakomity węgierski ekonomista János Kornai porównuje socjalizm i kapitalizm pod względem ich innowacyjności. Zdaniem Kornaia nie badano dotychczas kompleksowo interakcji między zmianą systemową a zmianą myślenia o tworzeniu nowych produktów i nowych technologii i korzystaniu z nich. Autor stosuje termin "postęp technologiczny", interpretując go jako o wiele szersze zjawisko - część modernizacji, generującej głębokie zmiany w naszym życiu codziennym. Analizując pojęcie procesu innowacyjnego, wynalazku i innowacji oraz ich upowszechnienia, odwołuje się do poglądów Josepha Schumpetera na naturę kapitalizmu. Tylko system kapitalistyczny zdolny jest w pełni korzystać z możliwości rozwojowych, jakie stwarza proces innowacyjny. Właśnie ten proces nadaje kapitalizmowi największą dynamikę. Szybki wzrost innowacyjności i zwiększenie dynamiki nie są zjawiskami przypadkowymi, ale mocno zakorzenioną systemowo specyficzną własnością kapitalizmu. W socjalizmie niezdolność do kreowania nowych, rewolucyjnych produktów i zacofanie w innych wymiarach postępu technicznego jest również specyfiką systemową.
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In his essay, the great Hungarian economist János Kornai compares the level of innovativeness of capitalism and socialism. In Kornai's opinion, no comprehensive studies have been made so far on interactions between a system change and changes in our way of thinking on creating and using new products and new technologies. Kornai uses the term 'technological progress' in a much wider sense, as a very general phenomenon, a part of modernization, bringing profound changes to our everyday lives. In his analysis of the notions of the innovation process, invention, innovation and diffusion, the author refers to Joseph Schumpeter's approach toward the nature of capitalism, and argues that only the capitalist system is fully capable of benefitting from the opportunities of development offered by the innovation process, which has made capitalism the most dynamic system of all. A rapid increase of innovativeness and dynamism is not a random phenomenon, but a deeply rooted system-specific property of capitalism. The inability of the socialist system to create groundbreaking new products, and its general technological backwardness are also a deeply rooted system-specific property.

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  • Collegium Budapest, Harvard Univeristy
  • Central European University

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