The nature of research goals: some necessary definitions
ResearchPublished 1962
An examination of the distinguishing features of three kinds of research goals of development, and purely intellectual goals govern academic research. In conducting research, industrial and governmental agencies whose missions are other than simply scientific have the problem of difining "useful research goals" that will at once allow the freedom of inquiry necessary to good research and still offer a reasonable probability that the completed research will be useful to the sponsoring organization. The problem, in short, is to determine the exact nature of the relevance of research to mission that must be embodied in useful research goals.
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- Year: 1962
- Pages: 25
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