Changing research cultures in US industry

Changes brought by the rise of the global economy and the end of the Cold W ar era have resulted in industry, government, and university rethinking the ir roles;is-ci-vis research and development (R&D), basic versus applied res earch, and the Pole of corporate research. Since the mid-1980s, industrial research in the United Stares has been going through restructuring. Intervi ews with seventy-two scientists and eighteen managers working in sir centra lized corporate R&D laboratories in high-technology industry show that a ne w culture of dependence with a mission-oriented approach is replacing the c herished culture of independence with a result-oriented approach.