An Evaluation of the System of Central Financial Control of Research in State Governments Bulletin of the National Research Council (1924) / Chapter Skim
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VII. Control of Research Expenditures in Industrial Laboratories
VII. Control of Research Expenditures in Industrial Laboratories
Pages 114-116
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The Telephone research laboratories occupy the whole of a thirteen-story building in New York, comprising a floor area of 400,000 square feet. The personnel is made up of more than three thousand workers, of whom about sixteen hundred are scientists, engineers, and technicians, the remainder draftsmen and other assistants.44 Industrial research has been accepted by the great corporations as an indispensable element of their business organization.
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Authorization for the use of funds set aside for research is usually made by an administrative authority outside of the laboratory. In the case of the General Electric Company this authority is an Engineering Committee; in the Telephone Company it is the Department of Research and Development, of which Mr.
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Salaries are higher, there is wider opportunity for promotion and advancement, and there exists an esprit de corps which comes from a large group of highly trained men engaged in research work. In the industrial laboratory the petty irritations which loom perhaps too high in state government are largely absent.
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