Abstract
AT the regional conference on “Research and the Progress of Industry in Scotland”, organised by the Federation of British Industries in Glasgow last April, the tendency for the direction of policy, market research and technical research to become concentrated in the south-eastern portion of the United Kingdom even although production might be located where labour was available, sometimes at considerable distances from headquarters, came in for some criticism. Dr. W. M. Cummings, for example, remarked that practically all the research associations sponsored by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research are situated in that area, and suggested that this may be one reason why Scottish industry has not utilized such research organizations more fully. Dr. Cummings himself urged that the technical colleges might make a greater contribution towards industrial research in Scotland, and pointed to the Joint Research Council established in Manchester as a pattern that might be followed in other industrial areas. From Prof. R. Hay, also of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, came the further suggestion for a Scottish industrial research institution on the lines of the Mellon Institute; and some dissatisfaction with the present situation also pervades Dr. Wightman's review of the work of Scottish research institutions issued under the title “Science in Scotland”.
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