Balancing Research and Education in the Sciences

Abstract

The address defines research as "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge" and discusses its purposes, such as establishing facts, solving problems, and developing new theories. It introduces a "new approach" focused on the nature and importance of "original research," which produces new knowledge rather than summarizing existing work. It describes the forms original research can take across different disciplines and notes that originality is a major criterion for publication in academic journals and is a common requirement for graduate dissertations.