1. : Wissenschaft, Staat, Mäzene. Anfängemoderner Wissenschaftspolitik in Großbritannien 1859–1920. Stuttgart 1982, S. 170.
2. So weist z. : Britain's Scientific and Technological Manpower. Stanford/London 1960, S. 335,
3. unter Bezug auf (The Passing of Keynesian Economics. The Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1957) darauf hin, daß in der Theorie Keynes' die technologische Forschung und Entwicklung keinerlei Rolle für die wirtschaftliche Gesamtentwicklung spielt.
4. Vgl. : Professional Employees: A study of scientists and engineers. London 1965, S. 19f.
5. Vgl. dazu : Technical Innovation and British Trade Performance, in: F. Blackaby (Ed.), De-Industrialisation. London 1978, S. 69: “Perhaps the biggest single long-term contrast between British and German industry has been the number and quality of engineers deployed in all managerial functions in manufacturing. For more than a century emgineering was a Cinderella discipline in British universities, and a Cinderella profession in status and attractions in comparison with Germany…”