Research And Development: How The "D" Got Into R&D

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Product Development and Design
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Business Operations,
R&D,
Research & Development
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Universite du Quebec a Montreal

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Overview: Research and Development (R&D) is a central component of official definitions of science. R&D includes more than just research, however. Over two-thirds of R&D expenditures are actually devoted to development. When, how and by whose decision did development come to be part of our definition of research? What was the purpose of measuring R&D rather than research? This paper traces the history of the concept R&D through seventy years of work on taxonomies and statistics on research.

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Format: PDF | Size: 169KB | Date: Sep 2005 | Pages: 44

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