An Attempt at Academic Substantiation of Science and Technology Policy

Studying the case of the Comprehensive Program for Scientific and Technological Progress (KP NTP), the author analyzes the national experience of academic substantiation of science and technology policy in the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s. It is highlighted that there was a higher level of scientific conceptual framework of documents in the field of strategic planning of scientific and technological development and a higher level of management of relevant activities in the Soviet period compared with the post-Soviet times. The article explains the practical value of the historical experience of academic substantiation of science and technology policy as well as of attempts to launch scientific workflows in the system of state decision-making.