info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceProceedings Book of abstracts / Fourth international thematic scientific conference “Fundamental (basic) research and its importance for the progress of the global community and the prosperous development of modern states” startpage: 49 2022 application/pdf 37300 bytes Pajović, Milivoje All rights reserved Key words: fundamental, applied research, practical results. eng https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:7873 ISBN: 978-86-920023-4-2 (IAMSS) Fundamental researches are basic. By their very nature, they provide a basis for knowledge about certain phenomena and define basic laws, which can later be built on and further developed through further research of the same type, or through applied researches. The results of these researches primarily concern theory, so most often and as a rule the goal of these researches is sci-entific explanation. Applied research continues from fundamental research in a logical sequence of inevitable practice. Based on the theory and evidence of fundamental research, the goals of applied scientific research set the task of ex-plaining and discovering the possibility of practical application of the results of fundamental research. Therefore, models, prototypes and projections are often applied, as well as general rules that have been tested in practice. Fundamental and applied research represent two separate but pervasive cat-egories that have their own distinct differences. Despite all the overlaps and intertwinings, these researches carry different expectations and have different social effects, such as differences in the judgment criteria related to the assess-ment of research success or failure, then differences in the effects on social movements and differences in the organization of research implementation, especially in the degree of autonomy in relation to political and economic in-terests and goals. Fundamental research as a starting point. Applied and other research