Abstract :
The National Research Development Corporation was set up 27 years ago by the British Government to promote practical technology by sponsoring the development of new inventions and innovations from public and private sources. For this purpose it can borrow up to £50 million from the Treasury, of which only one-half has been taken up so far. This means that ample resources are still available to invest with industry and university to launch or accelerate new inventive projects, taking them, if necessary, through to their production and marketing phases. The NRDC is very active in the electrical and electronics industry, and this article describes some of this work
