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IN a lecture on “Research in Industry and Rationalisation” delivered before the Society of Swedish Engineers in Great Britain on May 27, Mr. Axel Y. Enström discussed the way in which research and rationalisation have become indispensable factors for the economic development of industry. Science and research have now come to be marshalled among the working tools of industry in daily use, and the postwar period can supply many examples of the fruitful association of scientific and industrial research. Mr. Enström considers that Sweden's ability to attain a position in the world's markets has largely depended on the purposeful incorporation of scientific research, well-equipped laboratories, and a highly qualified staff with her industrial activity. There are now in Sweden about fifty works' research laboratories, which employ some six hundred persons and represent all the large industrial undertakings. The total cost of the industrial research carried on in Sweden is probably about four to five million crowns.
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Research in Industry. Nature 128, 122 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128122a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128122a0