Meyer-Thurow, Georg

Meyer-Thurow, Georg. The Industrialization of Invention A Case Study from the German Chemical Industry. Isis 73 (September 1982) 363-81. 

The best example is the study of research at Du Pont. See David A. Hounshell and John K. Smith, Jr., Science and Corporate Strategy. Du Pont R D, 1902-1980 (Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge University Press, 1988). For the German case see John Joseph Beer, Coal tar dye manufacture and the origins of the modern industrial research laboratory, Isis, 49 (1958), 123-131 Georg Meyer-Thurow, The... 

The historiography of industrial research has until recently concentrated either on the development of modem research laboratories or on the influence of external researchers on specific enterprises. The first to investigate the institutional history of industrial research was John J. Beer, who did so using mainly the example of Bayer. Georg Meyer-Thurow presented a more detailed analysis of research at the same firm." The work of Ernst Homburg further developed this institutional... 

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