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Industry tends to have differing ideologies than academia. Generally academia is about open knowledge while industry is about closed knowledge driven by profits
by netizen-936824 5y ago
Industry tends to have differing ideologies than academia. Generally academia is about open knowledge while industry is about closed knowledge driven by profits and greed.
Not saying there aren't some greedy administrators in universities, it's definitely a growing problem, but in industry it's the defining characteristic.
- dekhn 5y agoyes, but my experince was precisely the opposite. at least partly because of the company I chose, the time at which I chose, and the prep work I did.
- balsam 5y agowonder if you’d be willing to share what company that you joined was? I gather an academic would readily give away the name of the institution that looked after them, hopefully the same would be true for those who make it in industry?
- dekhn 5y agoI worked at Google and ran the Exacycle project, see https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/02/stanford-and-google-team-up-to-simulate-key-drug-receptor.html https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/02/stanford-and-... At the time, google was very open to its software engineers doing interesting 20% projects that led to scientific papers, but I wasn't ever able to join the research org fulltime and be a researcher.