As you may have seen in my electon-related threads, I tend to vary research depending on who is in power and what form his or her power takes. A lot of my research labs sit idle when the state is not issuing fat contracts to pursue new weapons technologies. In fact, technically in my current scenario the "ruling government" is prohibited from having any actual control over scientific research at all....
so from here on out I expect most of my research will go into mining, expanding the civilian economy, and construction.