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This comment presumes that public universities are the proper venues for this type of research. They're not. The only reason people are foregoing higher salar
by linuxftw 3y ago
This comment presumes that public universities are the proper venues for this type of research. They're not.
The only reason people are foregoing higher salaries to work at universities is because universities have pushed private research almost completely off the map.
And even if public research is necessary, it doesn't need to be part of the university system. Ever heard of the NSA? They do research, yet somehow they're able to exist without being a university.
(Not saying OP is disagreeing or agreeing with the statement from the article).
- techsupporter 3y ago> This comment presumes that public universities are the proper venues for this type of research. They're not. Why aren't they? It reads to me like you are making the same presumption, just in the other direction, without the support you see as lacking in the original quote. Please forgive me if I've missed something vital.
- larkost 3y agoHow do you suppose that universities have pushed industry out of research? The reality is that industry has bay-and-large decided it only wants to do the development part of R&D, and leave the research to someone else. Universities have stepped in to fill that gap. Of course this is messy, for example industry is very involved in the research in AI, but in places like medical technologies near 100% of the early development of everything from drugs to most devices is done out of Universities, and there is nothing stopping industry from trying to step in there.