INNOVATION RESULTING FROM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN The INFORMATION FIELD: 1. A Researcher's View: The Detection of Innovation Available to Purchase

Research can mean many things, even after we rule out its use as a label to raise the rank of institutional pecking order or the thinking of beautiful, but unverifiable, thoughts. Here I will regard the research man as a thoughtful artisan. That is, as a craftsman who steps back from his immediate task to look at it in relation to something else, and then turns back to his task to change it or, even better, to make it unnecessary.