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Would academia likewise stand for industry?
by semiinfinitely 1y ago
Would academia likewise stand for industry?
- duxup 1y agoAcademia provides the benefits listed in the article. The relationship is pretty clear.
- aleph_minus_one 1y ago> Would academia likewise stand for industry? Yes, but academia doesn't have the money to be of help for the industry.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoAlready does. Many PIs use their lab and facilities to spin out patents and startups. In either case it is where industry finds the trained talent they rely on to make money.
- avsm 1y agoApplications to graduate school typically surge during times of economic downturns when industry is on its back foot. So...yes? https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/feb/17/rise-applications-postgraduate-degrees https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/feb/17/rise-appli... (16 years ago) and more recently https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-12/grad-school-interest-surges-as-young-people-fear-recession-bleak-job-market https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-12/grad-scho...
- cs_throwaway 1y agoWe in computer science departments are very happy to send our students to industry, whether or not they bother finishing their degree. The article lists a bunch of old-timers, like Page and Brin. Right now, everyone is talking about the "$100M offers" from Meta, for people who completed (or dropped out) of their computer science PhDs. What does "not standing for industry" mean to you?
- MeetingsBrowser 1y agoWhat does this mean? The article points out that industry benefits from academic funding. Are you implying that a) academia does not benefit from industry or b) if industry’s survival were threatened academia would not care? Academia benefits hugely from industry and would/does stand to protect those benefits.
- triceratops 1y agoDoes industry hire people straight from the womb?
- Viliam1234 1y agoOnly Apple in third-world countries.
- epistasis 1y agoI'm in industry, academia is similarly standing up for industry all the time, in addition to feeding us all the basic science that we turn into products. Academic labs are often very eager to partner with industry to bring things to market. At least from my view in cancer. Especially the NCI is very impactful in making sure that discovery makes it to patients as quickly as possible.
- georgeecollins 1y agoIt bugs me that this is down-voted so much. I love education, academia, research etc. but it is clear to me that so much elite education hates factory farming, mining, manufacturing etc. It's good for independent voices to critique problems in these areas. But at some point you need to stand up and say these things have problems but our modern world needs them. I see it in my elite educated children. The more productive (and I mean literally in terms of producing something) they look down on it. The ideal job is academia, government, politics, or the arts. I know I am over-generalizing, but its like college teaches them you are Satan if you work for an oil company or Monsanto and a saint if you work for the EPA or FDA. Both are flawed but you also need both.
- ks2048 1y agoI'm guessing most executives and scientists at oil companies, Monsanto, banks, etc are educated at these same (often elite) universities. So, if they're teaching all these are pure evil, they are not doing a very good job.
- georgeecollins 1y agoI am not so sure. At the most elite institutions students go into finance, tech.. do they really go work for Monsanto? I see the CEO of Exxon went to Texas A&M. I don't think we are pointing the elites toward mining, manufacture or farming.
- semiinfinitely 1y agomany downvotes for asking a question without any implications. I wonder what it means