14th April 2010, 12:43 PM
I'm clearly lucky in working for a unit where we're actually encouraged (within reason and as long as it doesn't cost too much) to attempt to put some 'academic' percentage into reports, although to be fair there's some commercial mileage in that, quality work does get rewarded occasionally with recommendations etc resulting in more work, there's plenty of contracts out there that don't get put out to tender, or if they are it's just for the look of the thing....