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Governmental institutions often perform honestly and effectively at tasks belonging to earlier stages of research and development (R&D):
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• exploration, and
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• directed investigation.
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Suggested reading on Britain’s radar
J.G. Crowther and R. Whiddington, Science at War, Philosophical Library, Inc., New York, 1948.
R. Watson-Watt, The Pulse of Radar, Dial Press, New York, 1959.
C.P. Snow, “Science and Government,” and “Appendix to’ science and Government’,” in Public Affairs, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1971, pp. 99–186.
Snow’s essay, recommended at the end of Chapter 4, describes Tizard’s vital contribution in coordinating Watson-Watt’s progress on radar devices with air force personnel’s learning how to use them.
Recommended reading on project management, good and bad
Christopher Layton, Ten Innovations, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1972.
About 15 years ago, a British Crown Study undertook to discover why Britain’s R&D teams had produced so few winners while its academic engineering scientists had achieved worldwide respect. Layton reports the Crown Study’s conclusions and gives such information as cooperating companies were willing to disclose to the public. His book puts in sharp contrast the management style that wins and the style that loses. My ideal recipe for management of the project stage of a development owes much to Layton’s book.
Suggested reading on governmental project management
Seymour Melman, Profits without Production, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1983.
Thomas L. McNaugher, The M16 Controversies: Military Organizations and Weapons Acquisitions, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1984.
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Squires, A.M. (1986). Honest Direction … Directed Dishonesty. In: The Tender Ship. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1926-0_7
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