The last word on anything

I love listening to people speak a language I don’t know. I mean, it’s delightful to hear one of the Romance languages ​​recited on the tongue, and it’s nice when your brain reaches into the tattered old pocket labeled “high school French” to tell you what it means. But I’m talking about not knowing a…

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How to measure returns from R&D expenses

If in fact the slowdown in productivity was caused at least partially by a fall in public spending on R&D, it is evidence that today we would be much richer if we had maintained a higher level of scientific investment. And also marks the dangers of today’s proposed cuts. “Based on our research,” says Fieldhouse,…

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