PAST AND FUTURE VALUE SYSTEMS IN RESEARCH: AN INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVE

The value of research to an industrial researcher is intrinsically related to the researcher's value system and the judgment of the free market system in this nation. The researcher's value system is shaped by his or her formative professional years and the market acceptance or rejection of his or her developments. In the United States, the free enterprise market system has historically provided the judgment of developments and selected only those that successfully benefit society and thus the economy and the researcher. (Author)

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• Authors:
  • Cook, C F
• Conference:
  • 60th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1981-1-12 to 1981-1-16
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: pp 18-20
• Monograph Title: Research programming and the value of research
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 829
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic benefits; Industries; Private enterprise; Research; Social values; Transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Transportation research
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Research; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00349802
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309033063
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 30 1982 12:00AM