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Investing In The Future
An International Comparison of Government Funding of Academic and Related Research

John Irvine and Ben R. Martin, Senior Fellows, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK and the late Phoebe A. Isard, formerly Research Associate, Department of Community Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
1990 304 pp Hardback 978 1 85278 387 7 £73.00 on-line discount £65.70

‘Policymakers and academics alike can draw comfort and/or find ammunition from the material presented. Both groups will find some prop in the statistics to support their prejudices.’
– Glyn O. Phillips, R & D Management

This widely acclaimed book presents for the first time a detailed comparative survey of government research expenditure in 6 leading scientific nations over the period 1975–87. It provides disaggregated international statistics showing how the major industrial countries allocate their research resources to basic academic science – widely recognized to be an important cornerstone of technological progress.






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