Abstract:

The notion of quality takes importance in Research at various steps. To be persuaded of that, one must go back to the beginning of the Research executive's work, the initial contact with the client, until, and including the writing of the final report, to realise that the care of the quality of the research is, and must be, in the mind of the person responsible for the study at all stages which characterise its advancement. We would like to limit ourselves to two points which seem to us to include the whole problem, namely: - the quality concerning the definition of the subject of the study itself; - the quality of the research, taken as a creative and dynamic evolution of its own methods, in so far as it makes for research feedback.