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… is from page 152 of the late Stanford University economic historian Nathan Rosenberg [2]’s December 1991 paper “Critical issues in science policy research [3],” as this paper is reprinted in Rosenberg’s 1994 collection, Exploring the Black Box: Technology, Economics, and History [4]:
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.