Applied and Basic Research

According to goal, Research is classified

• Applied research is defined as a research, which is used to answer a specific question, determine why something failed or succeeded, solve a specific, pragmatic problem related to product development, or to gain better understanding.
• Examines a specific set of circumstances, and its ultimate goal is relating the results to a particular situation. ie, applied research uses the data directly for real world application.   
• Research, which studies the relationship and applicability of theories or principles to the solution of a problem.
• It is designed to solve practical problems of the modern world, rather than to acquire knowledge.
• Typically motivated by the need to solve a specific problem in a particular organization.
• The goal of an applied scientist is to improve the human condition. Applied researcher investigates ways to:

• improve agricultural crop production
• treat or cure a specific disease
• improve the energy efficiency of homes, offices, or modes of transportation

v  An organization contemplating a paperless office and a networking system for the company’s computers may conduct research to learn the amount of time its employees spend at personal computers in an average week

v  Based on discoveries from an NSF-funded research effort, an OU faculty researcher identifies an application of the research results that can help increase agricultural crop production yields.

v  A university research team has identified a new technique for storing and using liquefied natural gas (LNG) for use in a variety of fleet vehicles.

v  A group of faculty researchers have developed a set of new data-mining and text-mining algorithms that enable rapid entity detection for large sources of streaming unstructured text.

• Applied - Demand-driven intended to lead to solution of specific problems
• Designed to solve practical problems of the modern world
• Can take the research basic research further based on the results, where applicable
• Done to test theories in the field to achieve better validity.
• Aims at finding a solution for an immediate problem facing a society
• There is commercial value Eg: research to improve agricultural crop production
• Synthetic - Involves a search for pragmatics solutions to particular problems

Basic

• Analytic
• Involves a search for enduring or general truths
• Done for the intellectual pleasure of learning
• Mainly concerned with generalizations and with the formulation of a theory
• No commercial value attached to the discoveries that result from basic research.
• done for the development of theories or principles
• Domain- driven intended to lead theoretical dvpt
• focus on making things better and creating a more human society
• testing of theories and principle