Abstract :
IT HAS BEEN some time since this Transactions carried a Special Section, although several Special Issues have been published in the regular sequence in the past five years. This year we will have both a Special Section (this issue) and a Special Issue (next issue). The purpose of these projects is to present a set of papers on a particular topic or general area of Management of R, D, & E in one place, for future reference as well as for current use.
