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Make the companies that profit from the research do the research themselves, in house, and pay for it and direct it themselves. That's the only way. You can't
by javert 11y ago
Make the companies that profit from the research do the research themselves, in house, and pay for it and direct it themselves. That's the only way.
You can't set up academia as a soviet-style bureaucracy and expect it to perform any differently from a soviet-style bureaucracy.
- sanotehu 11y agoWhat, like the pharmaceutical industry? I would argue that much good knowledge is created that way but it, too, has its issues. See much of Ben Goldacre's work. http://www.badscience.net/ http://www.badscience.net/
- JupiterMoon 11y agoBut not all scientific research will benefit companies. Some will even be detrimental to large companies (disruptive technologies). Therefore blueskies pure science needs funding from some source other than industry. What I do find disturbing is the trend to push University research towards immediately commercially viable stuff. Industry would/should do this stuff anyway.