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Sets forth methodology for evaluating public sector research and development activity, and illustrates the methodology through case studies.
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Link (economics, U. of North Carolina-Greensboro) explains a methodology for evaluating research and development at government laboratories or funded with public money. He illustrates the methods in detailed case studies of basic and applied research programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, some of them newly formed federal laboratory research initiatives and others well established programs. Of interest to government officials, scientists and program managers nervous about funding in today's political climate, and researchers. Distributed in the US by Greenwood. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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