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... Although we have some confidence that the practice does not generate significant errors, the panel urges NSF to sponsor research on the effect of imprinting prior-period data on the industrial R&D survey in conjunction with testing the introduction of web-based data collection. The industrial R&D survey gives limited attribution to interaction with survey respondents, beyond the largest reporters, and then only when questions or issues of nonresponse are encountered.
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... Survey of Research and Development Expenditures at Colleges and Universities Survey of Scientific and Engineering Research Facilities The academic and biomedical facility surveys rely heavily on a knowledgeable point of contact to collect information, which generally must be obtained by a wicle data collection in these institutions. The pane]
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... The issues of concept and definition, of timeliness, anct of survey management have much to clo with the overall quality of these surveys. Likewise, the challenges posed by a changing environment for data collection, due to the growing prominence of "novel" forms of organizational arrangements for the conduct of research and development, neec!
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