THE SUPPORT 

 OF BASIC 

 RESEARCH 



Summary of 

 the Symposium 



DAEL WOLFLE 



American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science 



INDUSTRY and government have learned 

 that research is one of modern man's most powerful tools — a 

 tool that creates new products, new weapons, new cures for 

 disease, new services, new demands, and new wealth. The 

 return on the research dollar is so great that industry and 

 government are increasing, year after year, the amount invested 

 in research and development. The total has now reached an 

 annual rate of $10 billion and will surely increase in the years 

 ahead. 



Industry and government have also learned — but with less 

 assurance and universality — that it is prudent to invest some 

 of their research dollars in studies that are not aimed directly 

 at the solution of immediate practical problems, but that are 



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