Abstract
IN October 1944 the Standard Oil Development Co. in America made silver anniversary the occasion for a “Forum on the Future of Industrial Research”. The proceedings were issued by the Company in the following year in book form, and the volume makes intresting reading at the present time in view of topical discussions and trends in Great Britain. The papers and discussions centred round three themes: what should be the guiding principles and objectives for the commercial programmes of industrial research and development organisations; how small business can serve itself and be served by industrial research and development; and the place industrial research and development organisations should allocate to future work directed primarily toward national security. They thus canvassed questions that were afterwards discussed in Dr. Vannevar Bush's report, “Science: the Endless Frontier”, and one discussion at least covered the same theme as that of the conference arranged by the Manchester Joint Research Council for October 16, 1945, on “Research and the Smaller Firm”.
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