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... The geographic, organizational and social distance between basic research and manufacturing is likely to increase as the pressures for globalization increased In the United States, the location and relative emphasis of R&D vary greatly from firm to firm, but there has been a general movement to link R&D more closely with the needs of customers. Long -Term and Short-Term Perspectives The Japanese task force members and others have remarked on the tendency of corporate research in large Japanese companies to be persistent and to take a long-term perspective in speculative areas.
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