Carolina QuotesI distinguish two kinds of "applied" research: problem-solving research — government or commercially initiated, centrally managed and institutionally coupled to a plan for application of the results, useful science — investigator-initiated, competitively evaluated and widely communicated. Then we have basic science — useful also, also investigator-initiated, competitively evaluated and widely communicated.
Lewis M. Branscomb Carolinian
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p. 31
- work
- Confessions of a Technophile (1994)
- year
- 1994
- locator
- p. 31
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