Problems in Planning and Stimulating Technical Progress

The acceleration of progress in science and technology is the key problem upon whose solution depends the growth of the nation's economic potential, increased effectiveness in social production, and the course of the economic competition with the most developed capitalist countries. This is why questions pertaining to the acceleration of progress in science and technology and to improvement in the planning and stimulation of such progress occupied such a large place in the work of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU. Only certain aspects of this topic will be examined in the present article.