These institutes offer roles for scientists that are a combination of undertaking applied research, generating scientific data for legislation, and giving expert advice to policy makers.
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is Europe's largest application-oriented research organization, promoting and undertaking applied research for direct utility to private and public enterprise and of wide benefit to society as a whole.
However, there has recently been an encouraging if limited—shift in emphasis from the exclusive pursuit of statistical elegance (for example, maximising area under the receiver operating curve) to undertaking applied research on the practicalities and outcomes of using diabetes risk scores in real world prevention programmes.
The Institut Supérieur d'Etudes et de Recherche Scientifiques et Techniques (ISERST) (Higher Institute for Scientific and Technical Studies and Research) conducts scientific training and undertakes applied research on fisheries and related fields in Djibouti.
The purpose of undertaking applied health research is to improve the health and wealth of a nation [ 1].
We undertook applied qualitative research including 68 in-depth interviews and 36 focus group discussions with mothers, fathers and older female caretakers to examine the causes and prevention of childhood diarrhea in villages near and far from health facilities across four rural districts.
It is an obvious, but vital, lesson that additional money is very important in being able to undertake additional applied research whilst maintaining the funding for basic science.
Most critically, HPSR is applied research, undertaken with an orientation towards influencing policy and wider action to improve the performance of health systems, in the short or long term.
In the fields of solid state lighting, integrated circuits based on organic field-effect transistors (OFETs 7,8,9,10,11 and organic photovoltaic cells (OPVCs 12,13,14,15,16, commercial breakthrough is still ahead, with considerable effort in fundamental as well as applied research currently undertaken.
This research was undertaken applying "stimulus-organism-response" theory with two objectives: to ascertain determinants of window display intertwined with product messages and strategies; to study perception on window display conveying positioning, value, and quality of products creating customer's desire to visit and purchase.
