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WHEN in 1916 the Government of the day set aside a sum of 1,000,000l. to be expended in promoting scientific and industrial research, the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, on the advice of its Advisory Council, decided that the sum should be expended in grants in aid to industrial research associations to be established for the purpose of conducting research oh a co-operative basis. There were those who suggested that the best way of ensuring an extensive application of scientific research to industrial problems was to subsidise existing research agencies, whether in the universities and technical colleges or elsewhere; or to establish and endow in the country one or more research institutes after the type, say, of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in the U.S.A.
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WILLIAMSON, J. The State and Industrial Research Associations. Nature 118, 676–678 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118676a0
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