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This sort of knee-jerk reaction to a paper is exactly why companies at large prefer to treat their R&D as 'strictly confidential'. Can you imagine how much we
by DoingIsLearning 4y ago
This sort of knee-jerk reaction to a paper is exactly why companies at large prefer to treat their R&D as 'strictly confidential'.
Can you imagine how much we could advance if the whole of Industry contributed and published their 'non-secret sauce' research in the same way academia currently does.
- angryasian 4y agoI think the only real issue is summarized here. >“The study has an inherent bias,” Dr. Flick said. “It shows that, if you want to get more jobs, you should be on LinkedIn more.”
- SkyBelow 4y ago>Can you imagine how much we could advance if the whole of Industry contributed and published their 'non-secret sauce' research in the same way academia currently does. How much faster would scientists produce findings if they only needed to follow laws and didn't need the IRB unless they were looking at experiments that might need legal exceptions. There is a reason we slow down scientists, now the question is how do we handle people doing similar but under a different name and funding model.
- DoingIsLearning 4y agoThat's a bit of a non-sequitur. My point is that there is a trove of data and studies that each company's has to keep in a vault. Not all of it is strategic or secret but companies rarely publish by default.