Show huge cost in trade research revealed ew york industrial corporations and alie federal government are spend ing about annually for I 1 mistrial di research rese arci with industry spending 2 for every dollar spent by the government the national indus trial conference board announced these figures the board pointed out do not ir dude the cost of a large amount of technical research work be ing carried on in connection with in production the cost of which Is accounted for as part of production costs more alian 1 companies now op ente research divisions the board said whereas in only corn canles were known to maintain research divisions or laboratories in addition 70 trade associations are spending about a year in research and colleges and tech schools spend about A public utility corporation spent approximately last year manufacturing coro were found to spend for research an average of from 1 to 3 per cent of the gross amount received from sales the board said the greatest amount spent by a single manufacturing company among those from which the board re calved detailed statements for was more than data submitted to alie board showed that industries whose research ex tures were largest five years ago have scored the greatest relative growth since that lime |