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Research Funding as an Investment: Can We Measure the Returns?
NTIS order #PB86-218278
Full Report ~1073K
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Front Matter ~27K
Table of Contents ~9K
Chapters
1: Executive Summary: Overview and Findings ~52K
2: Measuring the Economic Return: Progress and Problems ~227K
3: Noneconomic Quantitative Measures: The "Output" of Science ~371K
4: Research Decisionmaking in Industry: The LImits to Quantitative Methods ~158K
5: Government Decisionmaking ~283K
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