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Orienting Research and Development to the Needs of Industry: The Application of the ‘Customer-Contractor’ Principle in the Department of Industry

In: Industrial Innovation

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  • Michael Gibbons
  • P. J. Gummett

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The first part of this paper describes one aspect of the attempt made in Britain during the years 1970–7 to orient government-sponsored civilian research and development more in the direction of national needs through the mechanism of the customer-contractor principle prescribed by Lord Rothschild.2 We shall be concerned mostly with the application of that principle to the Department of Industry (DOI) and its Industrial Research Establishments (IREs.). It is important to realise, however, that — although the Rothschild reforms refer mainly to administrative procedures in the DOI — the particular form that these procedures took has changed significantly both the locus of decision-making and the capacity of the department to direct research to specific ends.

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  • Michael Gibbons & P. J. Gummett, 1979. "Orienting Research and Development to the Needs of Industry: The Application of the ‘Customer-Contractor’ Principle in the Department of Industry," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Michael J. Baker (ed.), Industrial Innovation, chapter 9, pages 165-184, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-03822-0_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03822-0_9
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