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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1985
This Office of Technology Assessment report on the current state of research and development in the telecommunications industry in the United States examines four specific areas of research as case studies: computer architecture, artificial intelligence, fiber optics, and software engineering. It discusses the structure and orientation of some…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Case Studies, Computers, Foreign Countries

Henderson, Albert – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Compares constant dollar spending on research with constant dollar spending on libraries 1960-1995. Evaluation of the indirect cost policy by which library costs are reimbursed as a function of science grant management suggests it has failed to promote cost-effective research. Evaluation of the impact of various information technologies finds…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Aid