"talent flows toward problems that institutions are willing to pay to solve" Reminds me of Groucho's Law: you should never work on something for which you can get funding. Why? Bc it means it's not adventurous enough. Tonge-in-cheek, but worth pondering regularly, IMO.https://twitter.com/nayafia/status/1022565754925809664 …
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Yes. My original point (perhaps too subtly made) is that academia is just as suspectible to market forces as industry, so they shouldn't take the moral high ground
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Perhaps what Bret is saying is that there’s no real necessity that academic research has to have that market pressure. The incentives aren’t really setup for that though (e.g. in the past universities used to fund all of a profs research, now it’s mostly centralized to NSF etc).
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@ErwKuhn) From what I've seen in my research Poincare is often right. There's a kind indirectness to science and tech where working on "useless" number theory eventually produces cryptography/blockchain but working on Theranos produces, well, Theranos.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I usually use 'There is no applied science if there is no science to apply' (Bernardo Houssay). These are great too, will keep them in mind.
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Another quote from Poincaré, even more current (Sciences et Méthodes, p.9):...
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