In the chemical industry and the industrial research, catalysis play an important role.
Growth in American industrial research is slow, and some companies are cutting back.
Federal government tax advantages for industrial research and development.
After spending several more years doing various industrial research, Fenn was looking to get back into the academic world.
What his union now wants is for the Government to help by improving education and pouring more state money into industrial research.
Therefore, China did not develop a broad base of industrial research and development.
"We especially need to ask why industrial research is down when for other countries it's going up," he said.
Between 1980 and 1985 the rate of annual growth for industrial research was 6.9 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars, the report said.
In industrial research, the situation is even worse, and the new technology sector appears to be the worst of all.
From 1942 to 1945, he was the head of the institute for industrial research.