What is Research?
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- As the close linkage of R&D (research and development) indicates,
research is a creative, inventive activity.
- Like both art and engineering, it is creative "in the small".
- Like art, research is creative "in the large".
- Like engineering, research is constrained by physical or historical
reality.
- Unlike either art or engineering, you don't know the answer in
advance.
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