On Better Mousetraps and Basic Research: Getting the Applied World to the Laboratory Door

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn SMC-15, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 2-8

  Rouse, William B ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING;

BASIC RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0021886682     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.1985.6313389     Document Type: Article

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