home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!cadenza.rutgers.edu!masticol
- From: masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
- Newsgroups: sci.research
- Subject: University/industry research diaspora
- Message-ID: <Aug.27.10.52.15.1992.23679@cadenza.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:52:15 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
- Lines: 25
-
- Someone posted an article about the deteriorating quality of academic
- research in a response to the Fabrikant affair. I heartily agree, and
- see the following reasons:
-
- - A glut on the number of researchers, which produces:
-
- - The "publish or perish" syndrome of academia, which inflates the
- number of junk articles, and is basically incompatible with:
-
- - Industrial research that is increasingly driven by next quarter's
- profit margin, making long-term or basic research projects unstable.
- All of which results in:
-
- - The difficulty in getting collaboration between industry and
- academia. Industry sees academic research as useless to them;
- academia values neat theory and sees industrial research problems as
- too complex to be good research topics.
-
- I know of one school (Renssalear or Rochester, I forget which) that
- requires its professors to collaborate with industry. But that is the
- exception in the U.S.
-
- Comments?
-
- - Steve (masticol@cs.rutgers.edu).
-