Chapter 1 The Comparative Economics of Research Development and Innovation in East and West: A Survey*The authors are indebted to Pari Patel for the provision of data from the SPRU database, and to Stephen Fortescue, Janos Kornai, Jan Monkiewicz, Michael Montias, Richard Nelson, Pavel Pelikan, Christopher Saunders and Elizabeth Teague for comments., Philip Hanson, Keith Pavitt;