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I'd like to point out that the majority of replies to this comment are about industrial espionage, and not academic research.
by hazelmatic 5y ago
I'd like to point out that the majority of replies to this comment are about industrial espionage, and not academic research.
- jacquesm 5y agoAcademic research tends to run some time ahead of industrial applications.
- hazelmatic 5y agoBut the discussion we're having right now is about academic research, which gets published openly. Professors move between institutions all the time. Has Harvard sued MIT because some professor didn't get tenure and took their research and students with them? I think that there's a difference if the professor in question were consulting for US companies, or specifically in projects within the DoD(versus receiving a grant, which again is a different situation), and shared those with Chinese entities. But as far as I can tell, nobody in this comments section is looking into that and we're just having arguments about other situations instead of what has actually happened. That obfuscates the matter at hand.