Federal Research and Development Expenditures and the National Economy: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Scientific Planning and Analysis of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 706 pages |
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Page 138 - First is the interdisciplinary knowledge required to understand the complex nature of many real-life problems. Second is the ability to bridge the gap between theoretical or highly technical research and the practical needs of policymakers and planners in government and the private sector.
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Page 189 - Mansfield found that holding R&D outlays constant, the number of significant inventions made by large firms in the chemical, petroleum, and steel industries declined as the size of firm increased.
Page 315 - Resources in the Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) Program of the National Science Foundation.
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Page 138 - ... for coping with them. The research and writing for these committees are provided by NPA's professional staff and, as required, by outside experts. In addition, NPA's professional staff undertakes research designed to provide data and ideas for policy makers and planners in government and the private sector.
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Page 138 - ... analyses and forecasts of changing international realities and their implications for US policies; and analyses of important new economic, social and political realities confronting American society.
Page 267 - States in world markets, price stability, and economic growth, and the role of the National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life in resolving these problems.
Page 703 - This fact is indeed striking, since independents often have to go into business for themselves before they can use their ideas. An entirely different study, conducted at the Harvard Business School, of very large firms exclusively, and covering all patents held by the firms surveyed, found...