Industrial lag
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Industrial lag:
"Then I said I see where the individual scientist makes a great breakthrough it is a long time before the academy accepts in general. Then a long time after the academy accepts in general that engineering begins to have this as part of their working data. Even a longer time before inventors have an atmosphere of logic that helps them to invent within the new terms. Then there's a long lag before the invention is taken on by industry. But once the invention starts to producing, then it alters the environment in a major way and there are all kinds of political adjustments. So that's why I said quite clearly, there's such a lag between an Einstein and Mrs. Murphy."
Citations
- RBF at SIMS, U.Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, p. 23
