Britain’s government may spend 11 per cent less on R&D than it claims,
the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology says in a
report published last week. The suspect figures arise because the Ministry
of Defence classes some work as R&D which is not genuine research, and
thus overstates its own expenditure on R&D by an estimated 拢471
million.
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