Scientific and Technical Progress as the Object of Planning (Problems of Methodology)

Abstract

The importance of the planning principle in the regulation of scientific and technical progress and all its elements in the complex: research and development — design and experimentation — series production of new equipment (products) — use of new equipment, is increasing at all levels of the national economy as the role of scientific and technical progress in the development of social production increases. The effectiveness of the planned regulation of the socialist economy at the present time is more and more determined by the degree to which the indices of economic growth in economic development plans at all levels are conditional upon the plans for scientific and technical progress, on the one hand, and on the other hand, by the degree to which the plans for scientific and technical progress are substantiated by plans for economic development with respect to needs and resources. The interconditionality of these plans presupposes their organic union, which comprises a very important characteristic of planned economic management in the face of the intensification of economic development based on scientific and technical progress.