ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Finnish–Soviet technological, scientific, and industrial cooperation in shipbuilding that went beyond the conventional commercial exchange. After high politics and trade administration, this chapter focuses on the motives and rationales of the shipbuilding companies to participate in border-crossing scientific, technical, and industrial cooperation. The intergovernmental institutions of scientific-technical and industrial cooperation in the Finnish–Soviet relations originated from the Soviet interests in using transnational cooperation as a tool to create economic dependencies and to get access to Western technology through Finland. The chapter shows, however, how the Finnish shipbuilding companies applied and repurposed these institutions to enact their own business goals. In particular, the bilateral techno-scientific cooperation became influential in the development of expertise in Arctic maritime technology in Finland—a country without Arctic ice.
