Generally, basic, applied and use-inspired basic research contribute to innovation in varying degrees (Griliches 1985; Robin and Schubert 2013).
Not only do investments in basic research contribute to technical advances that we enjoy every day, but they are critical to our national economy and education system.
What has basic research contributed to the quality of life as we define it today?
This research contributes to the basic understanding required for designing textures for novel plant-based protein products.
Our research contributes to practice and IS research.
As a result, their work established important concepts in cell biology, a case of medically oriented research contributing to basic research advances.
Transgenic animal models of human cardiac diseases and cultured cells have been crucial to cardiovascular research, contributing to both our basic understanding of normal development and disease mechanisms.
Although most of my current research addresses basic questions, the M.D. part of me thinks about human health and the possibility of our research contributing to new insights into disease or therapies.
Special thanks to Naomi Shah for research contributed to this article.
Government spending — on things like education, infrastructure and basic research — can contribute to growth, too.
