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The Impact Of Research And Development On Income And Employment In Utah, Thomas Clark Anderson
The Impact Of Research And Development On Income And Employment In Utah, Thomas Clark Anderson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Research and development (R&D) play an increasingly important role in the economy of the United States. Total expenditures for R&D during the decade of the 1950's were greater than in the entire history of the United States previous to that time. As a percent of gross national product, R&D has grown from 0.2 percent in 1921, to 0.4 to 0.6 percent in the 1930's and 1940's, and is now more than 3 percent.1
Much has been said of the impact that the growth of R&D has on the general economy. R&D had also had a significant economic and sociocultural …