This volume presents a series of quantitative indicators which are intended to illuminate some of the important aspects of the role played by scientific and R&D activities in our economic and social life not already described by existing data.

NESTOR E. TERLECKYJ is the director of the Center for Socio- Economic Analysis of the National Planning Association. He is the author of a number of books and articles in quantitative

Part I: SUMMARY,Part II: NEW INDICATORS FOR R&D ACTIVITIES, Part Ill: INDICATORS OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH ,Part IV: INDICATORS OF THE LEARNING OF SCIENCE