Re: Academic/commercial collaboration

From: tom smith <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Jan 13, 2003  2:29:20 PM Europe/London
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Academic/commercial collaboration


On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 06:04 PM, Nick Gassman wrote:

> On the other hand, there are a lot of bright people in academia, and
> they are looking for things to research.
> They have time and some
> resources.
>  It seems a shame to me that industry can't somehow find a way
> to collaborate, so that the academics still get to publish their papers
> and do good research, but the results are also more directly applicable
> to real issues.

I too have been stymied in conference sessions where I couldn't even
work out what the paper was about, let alone if it was applicable to me
or not.

Having worked in academia for 7 years, and business for 3, there is,
and always has been a way to collaborate,  Fund a project. It doesn't
have to be big, you just need to find a research department with
similar interests to yours. Whilst I don't agree that research
departments are necessarily "looking for things to research" or that
they have spare time and resources, but I imagine most could do with a
little extra cash.

Almost all of the work I used to do was funded by Apple, Oracle, Nortel
etc, and where possible, anyone on the teams who wanted to publish a
paper could.

tom




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