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Author Vries, Marc de

Title 80 years of research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914-1994) : the role of the Nat. Lab. at Philips / Marc J. de Vries ; with contributions by F. Kees Boersma
Published Amsterdam : Pallas Publications, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations
Contents Table of Contents; Preface; 1. The Role of a Research Organisation in an Industrial Company: Motives and Themes for Writing the History of the Philips Nat. Lab.; 2. Prologue: The Nat. Lab.'s Early Years (1914-1923); PART I. The Nat. Lab. as a Growth and Diversification Factor in the Philips Company (1923-1946); 3. Developing a Research Organisation for a Diversifying Company; 4. Research for Diversification in Action; Intermezzo I. The German Occupation and the Transition Years (1940-1946); PART II. An Autonomous Lab alongside Autonomous Product Divisions (1946-1972)
5. A Research Organisation alongside Autonomous Product Divisions6. The Practice of Autonomous Research; Intermezzo II. Changing Attitudes towards Science and Technology (1966-1972); PART III. The Road towards Mutual Commitment (1972-1994); 7. Redirecting the Research Organisation for Mutual Commitment; 8. Examples of the Road towards Mutual Commitment; 9. Epilogue: The Dynamics of the Nat. Lab. as a Professional Organisation within the Philips Company; List of Figures; Notes; Index
Summary A historical study of the role of the Philips Nat. Lab. in the past 80 years
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-320) and index
Notes English
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Subject Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken. Natuurkundig Laboratorium -- History
SUBJECT Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium fast
Eindhoven -- Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium. swd
Subject Research, Industrial -- Netherlands -- Laboratories -- History
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Research.
Research, Industrial -- Laboratories
Netherlands
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Boersma, Kees
Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken. Natuurkundig Laboratorium
ISBN 1423785398
9781423785392
1280958642
9781280958649
9786610958641
6610958645
9048504791
9789048504794
Other Titles Eighty years of research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914-1994)