well noted by David Berry in the comments: """ >It is interesting to note that regardless of your claims to be in a 'better' or 'similar' position to an academ

well noted by David Berry in the comments: """ >It is interesting to note that regardless of your claims to be in a 'better' or 'similar' position to an academic you continue to use academia as the anchor point of a frame of reference. I don't see any need to make that claim - the work in a corporate R & D environment is just different - it is based largely around performativity (here I am thinking of Lyotard). A conceptual framework that I think you might find helpful..<elided for brevity>... I personally think that there are important differences between universities and corporations linked to their respective knowledge domain and notion of contribution (e.g. to the public good vs private gain). To miss this is to collapse all of social life into the market. """