Invention, research and development
Subtitle: a survey of the literature
Series: U.S. Air Force. Project Rand research memorandum -- RM-2146
Publisher: Rand Corp.
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Santa Monica, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Industrial Research; Management; Technological innovations
Description: A selective summary of the literature on the invention and Industrial Research and Development. It is not an annotated bibliography, it is an attempt to focus on the subject the light shed by many different authors writing in many different, though related fields. Scientific research, invention, technological change--the striking increase in the rate of these activities in western culture during the past three and half centuries has been remarked by innumerable historians, philosphers, and scientists.
Notes: ASTIA document number AD 156014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-65).