ABSTRACT
The biomedical research experience provides a vivid illustration of the boundaries of undirected research. The Department of Defense, in attempting to identify specific research factors that have contributed to the development of new weapons systems, found that only a small proportion of the technological foundations for development rested on knowledge contributed by pure or undirected research. The Center's grid approach offers on the one hand a potential channel for maximizing the products of the undirected grants process; and on the other, the purchasing of research, through contracts of many different kinds, for making good the gaps and deficiencies in the health care system. Its potential is sufficiently wide to encompass both Research for Development, and also academic research at the theoretical, integrative, and applied levels. The chapter discusses five models: the Machiavellian, the Octopus, the Academician, troubleshooter, the Jeremy Bentham. Each makes certain assumptions, and outlines certain strategies in relation to these assumptions.
