 Dear students, we have studied basic and applied research and we have seen what kind of applied research we conduct and what is basic research. Now we are going to compare the differences between basic and applied research and we are going to compare the different aspects of basic and applied research. The first aspect is the audience of the research. What is the primary audience of the research? So in basic research, the audience is scientific community or the colleague researchers in the country or outside the country at the global level. Whereas when we talk about the applied research, in applied research, the basic audience of the research is the practitioners, participants or supervisors. All these type of people are non-researchers and they are actually participating in the process of research and they are the stakeholder of the research. Who is the evaluator of the research? In basic research, the research study is basically evaluated by the research peers who are renowned in their disciplines and there is a mechanism to evaluate the research study. In applied research, the findings of the research are basically evaluated by the practitioners and supervisors. And when we talk about the autonomy of the researcher in basic research, the autonomy of the researcher is very high. He is the sole responsible of the research per findings and he is considered as the authority on the research problem. And when we talk about the applied research, in applied research, the researcher has low to moderate autonomy. He actually conducts the research as per the given scope by the funding organization or by the moderator or by the government. When we compare both kinds of research on the basis of the research rigor, in basic research it is very high and in applied research it varies and it is low and moderate. In basic research, we emphasize on the data quality, we emphasize on the research process while in applied research we actually try to give the results to the funding organization. And when we talk about the priority of the research, in basic research we have to explore the truth, we have to produce the knowledge and in applied research we see the relevance of the issue with the community and the government. And purpose of the research in basic research is that to create a new knowledge or related to a issue and while in applied research we focus on to resolve a practical problem or a social issue. Success indicated by publication and impact on knowledge in basic research whereas in applied research success is indicated by direct application to address a specific concern or problem that what kind of actions actually taken by the funding organization or the government on the basis of your research finding. So these are actually the basic differences between the basic and applied research.