The National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) was a non-departmental government body established by the British Government to transfer technology from the public sector to the private sector.
[1] It was set up by the Board of Trade under the Development of Inventions Act 1948 [2] and the first managing director was Lord Giffard.
[5] In 1981, the NRDC was combined with the National Enterprise Board ('NEB') to form the British Technology Group ('BTG').
Examples of such products include carbon fibre, asbestos-plastic composites and developments in semi-conductor technology.
[7] In the 1970s, a team of Rothamsted Research scientists discovered three pyrethroids suitable for use as insecticides, namely permethrin, cypermethrin and deltamethrin.