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MANUFACTURERS in Great Britain have been the targets of much deserved criticism on account of their long neglect of the assistance which systematic chemical and physical research is able to offer them, but in recent years their attitude has implied a growing faith. Doubtless their policy in the past has been conditioned more by the fact that research organisations adequate to the study of many of their problems cost a great deal of money than by any hostility to the idea of progress, although this is probably not universally true; ‘small profits and quick returns,’ however excellent a maxim, does not stimulate the long view when business is brisk, and cannot afford it during a slump. The realisation, however, that industrial competition does not necessarily exclude scientific co-operation has led to the establishment and profitable operation, with State assistance, of a number of research associations. The youngest member of the family is the Research Association of British Paint, Colour, and Varnish Manufacturers, which was incorporated in September 1926, and the laboratories of which were opened at the first annual general meeting at Teddington on Sept. 21 last.
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News and Views. Nature 120, 487–491 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120487b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120487b0