As a small software vendor, this doens't seem accurate to me. My whole field is reading the papers but very often the scientists are ahead. It's their job to di

As a small software vendor, this doens't seem accurate to me. My whole field is reading the papers but very often the scientists are ahead. It's their job to discover new territory, while we also have to deal with more mundane "product" tasks. Industry will do the "fine-tuning" but not really the innovation, or just small innovations. So from a consumer point of view, it might seem that industry people are ahead with their product output, but the new science is light-years ahead of that.