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Recently the rise of research & development expenditures has met increasingly strong political priority resistance, & in the last decade there has been a tendency to return to fundamentals & reexamine the social warrants for research. It has been recognized that innovation in industry had very much more to do with market pull than technological availability push. Research must be disaggregated from development. A central problem is the status of scientific research of the normal academic variety; the majority of scientific researchers produce research out of deep motivations, ranging from curiosity about nature to doing useful things. As a vital accompaniment, they give valuable products or services. This accompaniment arises from the essential nature of science as a growing & universal body of knowledge. It is suggested that research is extrinsically valuable as an antiobsolescence phenomenon, & can be weighed & encouraged in terms of economics. The theory indicates that it is uneconomic to support more than the few consumption-good, creative geniuses in pure research posts unconnected with specifically valuable services. B. Hubinger.