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CONTACT:rdsociety@royalsoc.ac.uk
ORGANIZER:The Research and Development Society
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DESCRIPTION:One of the great problems we have with science and technology i
 s that elite discussion (let alone public understanding) is based on someti
 mes dubious assumptions rather than on the basis of evidence. A good exampl
 e is the underlying assumption that national R&D spending correlates with n
 ational rates of economic growth. It does not\, as I will show. But this is
  not an argument for the unimportance of R&D. Rather it suggests that R&D m
 ust be thought about in less nationalistic ways\, for which there are other
  compelling reasons. Avoiding the naïve economics of R&D is essential to g
 ood policies for R&D. At the same time we need to recognise more clearly th
 at doing R&D is far from the only way of changing either the world\, or the
  performance of the British economy.
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\n"David Edgerton":http://www3.impe
 rial.ac.uk/historyofscience/aboutthecentre/staff/professordavidedgerton was
  the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science\, Technolog
 y and Medicine at Imperial College London\, where he is now Hans Rausing Pr
 ofessor. One of Britain's leading historians\, he has challenged convention
 al analyses of science and technology for 20 years. He is the author of\, a
 mong other works\, The Shock of the Old: technology and global history sinc
 e 1900\, Science\, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline'\, 1870-1
 970 (Cambridge\, 1996)\, and Warfare State: Britain 1920-1970\, and writes 
 for publications including Prospect\, the London Review of Books\, Nature\,
  Times Higher Education Supplement\, and the Guardian. He currently holds a
  Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.
SUMMARY:R&D Society: How important is R&D? with David Edgerton of Imperial 
 College London
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