Excerpt from Sources of Ideas and Their Effectiveness in Parallel R& D Projects: July 1965 Seven sets of parallel R D projects involving I5 labora Tories are examined. Data gathered by sqtion development Re cords-a form which provides a weekly estimate of The probability of adoption of The approaches under consideration as possible solutions To a Technical problem-and post - project interviews with The engineers responsible for each problem. The sources of Tech nical approaches, indicated on The sqtion development Records, were obtained during The post-project interviews. Eight pos sible sources of ideas are considered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.