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A CONFERENCE of Directors of Industrial Research is being held during March 11–14 at Ashorne Hill, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, under the auspices of the industrial Research Committee of the Federation of British Industries. The chairman of the Research Committee, Sir Wallace Akers, is presiding. The subjects under discussion include relationship between the research department and management and other departments of the industrial organisation ; finance and costing, laboratory administration and scientific staff, research programmes and their formulation ; application of results of research to production ; publications, publicity, information and intelligence ; and relationship with research associations, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and other Government departments, and universities.
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Conference of Industrial Research Directors. Nature 163, 397 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163397a0
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