Re: Innovations: business and academia

From: tom aagdii (aagdii@fatima.dds.nl)
Date: Wed Sep 18 1996 - 11:28:05 MDT


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> Commercial companies are very good at providing motivation
> for development, finding resources and rewarding contributions
> of ideas and effort - this seems to be a winning combination
> when an idea is relatively simple and can be developed into
> a product by a relatively small group of people in a reasonable
> time frame. When one wants to design a global system that would
> benefit many diverse groups of people in the long run, then open
> social discussion would appear essential.

  once i skimed few pages in a book, and i glanced an idea about
  big cooroporation locating their offices next to university campouses.
  never seen the book again, never seen such ideas again.
  and i dont know anything about the subject. does anyone
  know anything about using universities for profit.

  tagdi



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