Research funding as an investment--can we measure the returns?DIANE Publishing, 1986 - 80 pages |
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Page 55 - The best person to decide what research work shall be done is the man who is doing the research. The next best is the head of the department. After that you leave the field of best persons and meet increasingly worse groups. The first of these is the research director, who is probably wrong more than half the time. Then comes a committee, which is wrong most of the time.
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Page 55 - Company, once put it, even if too vigorously : ' 'the best person to decide what research work shall be done is the man who is doing the research, and the next best person is the head of the department, who knows all about the subject and the work ; after that you leave the field of the best people and start on increasingly worse groups, the first...
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Page 65 - US government agencies produce printed and online secondary services for thousands of reports every year: the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC).