TIL: R&D

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In 1962 the influential Frascati Handbook of the OECD consolidated two distinctions which have been widely used in science policy. First, it distinguished research (“the pursuit of new knowledge”) and development (the use of results of research “to develop new products, methods, and means of production”). The roots of this R&D divide go back to Aristotle’s division between episteme and techne.