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Excerpt from Institutional Variations in Problem Choice and Persistence Among Pioneering Researchers
Given the tremendous volume of research conducted in industrial and government laboratories and the large percentage of doctorates employed, it is not surprising that any examination of scientists' problem choices must be considered in light of commercial, military and other external influences. Frequently, these interests can conflict with the internal cognitive and social influences of the scientific community. Difficulties arise when, in order to preserve commercial advantage or national security, scientists in industrial and military laboratories need to maintain a level of secrecy that divides them from their colleagues in the rest of the research community (allen, 1977; Kornhauser, 1962; Pelz and Andrews. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
