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resulting from cooperation and coordination. 
In spite of the very great interest of technology policy 
it does not follow that research in this field could be 
recommended unconditionally. I have a feeling that 
such research in general could not very well be carried on 
as a sideline but only with a fairly considerable 
concentration of resources in personel and money. The field 
is very wide and complicated. Instead I would advocate, 
among the numerous lines of research which might suggest 
themselves in connection with the major question of 
"reulation" , the following study: An attempt to find out 
about the experiences, views and attitudes of young 
enterpreneurs who have not so long ago set up in business. 
This would be interesting both f^om a practical and from 
a more general point of view. What difficulties are these 
people encountering? What motivates them, what attracts them 
and what discourages them from their carreer? * 
* If anybody needs to be convinced of the great interest 
in interviews with managers he might look at an article 
on the "New Managrial Elite" in Business Week January 23, 1985. 
I turn now to the topic of labour relations 
brilliantly dealt with by Meidner and Soskice. I am rather 
ignorant of the subject but perhaps this made me a relatively 
unprejudiced listener. As such I have the impression 
that the considerable differences of opinion which 
emerged in the discussion do not represent hardened 
doctrinaire views but are amenable to be ^influenced 
by new information and experience. 
Soskice has powerfully pleaded for concentration of unions 
and of the bargaining process. In my country the conditions