Tudományszervezési Tájékoztató, 1972
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management's ability to develop it, and its management is such as deserved by the organization. " The study reminds the reader of H. Hoover's investigations /Waste in Industry/, conducted in the first quarter of the century, by which he wanted to explore the losses of American industry, and in ,the course of which he established that the management has a decisive role in losses. The author assumes that this is even more so in the "workshops" of creative intellectual work. Therefore, with regard to the present world-wide crisis in management, he examines the individual factors of management in order to determine the sources of losses which appear in the selection of managers, in defining their functions, and also in their actual work and activities. By way of conclusion he establishes that the most serious source of losses in every organization is the management's inability to mobilize the intellectual potential of the staff and to direct it to achieve objectives valuable for society, for the lack of belief in common objectives and of suitable methods . Finally, like in the former parts of the study, the author confronts the present aspects of his investigations with the other aspects by means of a "problemmatrix". EXPENDITURES ON SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY The German journal "Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft" publishes, in continuation, statistical tables and explanations, based on data on scientific expenditures compiled by the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft. After surveying the trends in R+D expenditures between 1948 and 1970 in absolute numbers, the article gives further tables showing the trends in expenditures on 1962 prices, their percentage in the GNP , as well as the per capita or per one wage earner expenditure on science . Information is given on the West German economy's total R+D expenditures in I9691 the financial resources of research in industrial companies, the joint research of research associations, the proportion of internal to external expenditures in companies, as well as on the amounts or grants of scientific foundations of such companies, and on the correlation of the size, number of personnel and the turnover of the companies. THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY — SCIENCE AND SOCIETY A memorandum and two reports on the state of the British government's research and development have been published in the form of,a "Green Paper".Lord Rothschild's report is concerned with the way the British government organizes and 401
