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ON a number of occasions during the past year or two, the subject of research in industry in Britain has been ventilated and discussed at conferences arranged by various organisations. Although the attendance at these conferences has included some industrialists it is, to some extent, true that the discussions have been directed at industry ; and that the general background of the conferences has included an assumption that industry had yet to be fully convinced of the virtues of applied science and that the vital relation between scientific research and industrial progress had yet to be completely appreciated. It was, therefore, fitting and timely that at a conference arranged by the Federation of British Industries held in the Kingsway Hall, London, on March 27 and 28, 1946, industry should have been given the opportunity of expressing its own views on this subject and of indicating the extent of its appreciation of the importance of scientific research. The conference was remarkable in that no less than twelve hundred delegates, drawn from all branches of industry, accepted invitations to attend it, and the Federation is to be congratulated on this successful outcome of its venture. Even more solid grounds for congratulation to the organisers, and to Sir William Larke in particular, were provided by the genuinely enthusiastic atmosphere and by the relevant and lively nature of the discussions which the conference evoked. There can no longer be any room for doubt as to the interest of industrialists in research.
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INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH. Nature 157, 684–686 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157684a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157684a0