Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century
Decline and Renaissance?
Coopey, Richard Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, and research fellow at the Business History Unit, London School of Economics
Lyth, Peter Lecturer, Tourism & Travel Research Institute, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham
Print publication date: 2009 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-922600-9




Chapter 13 Industrial Research and the Employment of Scientists in British Industry before the 1970s
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199226009.003.0014

Sally Horrocks
Abstract: This chapter reappraises chronologically the history of industrial research and the application of science in British industry before the 1970s. It argues that this history demonstrates not only an extensive enthusiasm for the integration of science, technology, and industry among British business leaders that started during the 19th century and persisted for much of the 20th century, but also the extensive translation of this enthusiasm into action. This perspective allows us to develop a better understanding of the role of scientific expertise and R&D in British business history than a narrative that is dominated by discussions of relative economic decline.

Keywords: Britain, British industry, R&D, economic decliine, scientific enterprise,

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Introduction
Chapter 1 Strategic Games, Scale, and Efficiency, or Chandler goes to Hollywood
Chapter 2 Industrial Policy in Twentieth Century Britain
Chapter 3 Business in the Regions: From ‘Old’ Districts to ‘New’ Clusters?
Chapter 4 Elites, Entrepreneurs, and British Business in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 5 Invisible Entrepreneurs? Women and Business in Twentieth Century Britain
Chapter 6 From a Solution to a Problem? Overseas Multinationals in Britain during Economic Decline and Renaissance
Chapter 7 British Management Since 1945: ‘Renaissance’ and Inertia, Illusions and Realities
Chapter 8 Not ‘Decline and Revival’: An Alternative Narrative on British Post-War Productivity
Chapter 9 Marketing Management in Britain: What is the Evidence for ‘Failure’?
Chapter 10 British Retail Banking in the Twentieth Century: Decline and Renaissance in Industrial Lending
Chapter 11 The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking
Chapter 12 Back to the Future: The Aircraft and IT Industries in Britain since 1945
Chapter 13 Industrial Research and the Employment of Scientists in British Industry before the 1970s
Chapter 14 Increasing Value? Modern British Retailing in the Late Twentieth Century
Chapter 15 Predicting, Providing, Sustaining, Integrating? British Transport Policy since 1945
Chapter 16 The Film Industry in Twentieth Century Britain: Consumption Patterns, Government Regulation, and Firm Strategy
Chapter 17 British Sport Transformed: Sport, Business, and the Media since 1960
Chapter 18 Ethics, Religion, and Business in Twentieth Century Britain
Index
 
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