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[00:00.37]Lesson 15
[00:02.58]Secrecy in industry
[00:10.68]Why is secrecy particularly important in the chemical industries?
[00:17.82]Two factors weigh heavily against the effectiveness of scientific research in industry.
[00:25.27]One is the general atmosphere of secrecy in which it is carried out,
[00:31.01]the other the lack of freedom of the individual research worker.
[00:36.05]In so far as any inquiry is a secret one,
[00:40.13]it naturally limits all those engaged in carrying it out from effective contact with their fellow scientists either in other countries or in universities,
[00:51.21]or even, often enough, in other departments of the same firm.
[00:57.33]The degree of secrecy naturally varies considerably.
[01:01.76]Some of the bigger firms are engaged in researches which are of such general and fundamental nature
[01:09.15]that it is a positive advantage to them not to keep them secret.
[01:15.02]Yet a great many processes depending on such research are sought for with complete secrecy until the stage at which patents can be taken out.
[01:25.75]Even more processes are never patented at all but kept as secret processes.
[01:32.43]This applies particularly to chemical industries,
[01:37.00]where chance discoveries play a much larger part than they do in physical and mechanical industries.