Abstract :
THOSE whose work allows them to live in a relatively neat and orderly world — mathematical theorists, for example, or production managers, perhaps — may find it strange that R, D&E managers are constantly preoccupied with problems of uncertainty. But it is this everpresent uncertainty in the process of having to come up with a workable and usable solution to a very specific and real and immediate problem that is the central concern of R, D&E.
