… is from page 152 of the late Stanford University economic historian Nathan Rosenberg’s December 1991 paper “Critical issues in science policy research,” as this paper is reprinted in Rosenberg’s 1994 collection, Exploring the Black Box: Technology, Economics, and History:
The most successful American research laboratories in private industry have demonstrated that it is possible to perform research of both a fundamental and an inter-disciplinary nature in a commercial, “mission-oriented” context.