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There are corresponding responsibilities in academia. Perhaps even more so. But like a business culture can, and often does, rot the incentives and responsibili

There are corresponding responsibilities in academia. Perhaps even more so. But like a business culture can, and often does, rot the incentives and responsibilities, so has the academic culture. I've worked for two corporate labs and have collaborated with several. There was less rigor if anything. Corporate lab work is quite cozy and stable. In corporate lab your job doesn't end if you don't (pretend) to get a new major discovery every year. They don't make anything available, often not even internally. Science is about a lot more than technology.

BurningFrog 3y ago
> like a business culture can, and often does, rot the incentives and responsibilities, so has the academic culture. Maybe the problem is that there are many corporations, with different cultures. But there is mostly just one academic culture across the whole system.
nvm0n2 3y ago
Hmm I've had the opposite experiences. Corp labs release cool and useful stuff all the time. On the front page right now is Seamless, a very useful thing released by a corporate lab. And corps have performance evaluation and management programmes designed to encourage high performance output. And of course the competent ones manage to bring research into production regularly. Whereas with academics, you get a paper. You might get data and code, or might not, depending on field and temperament of the researchers. If you're really lucky that data/code might actually be correct, match the paper and be usable for something, but it really depends a lot on the field. You almost certainly won't get products.