"I distinguish two kinds of "applied" research: problem-solving research β government or commercially initiated, centrally managed and institutionally coupled to a plan for application of the results, useful science β investigator-initiated, competitively evaluated and widely communicated. Then we have basic science β useful also, also investigator-initiated, competitively evaluated and widely communicated."
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