Over at Entrepreneur, Isaiah Hankel wrote what's, overall,
just another article criticizing academic culture, but if you read it with an open mind you'll find a paragraph that's probably
the most optimistic description I've ever read of what a research community can pull off, especially since Hankel's describing the academic community:
The ivory tower shouldn’t be perceived as a safe haven or a place for
professionals to bide their time when the economy goes south. Rather it
should be considered the best place to learn how to start and run a
business [emphasis mine]. Academia’s sole purpose should be developing people not to
just be professors, doctors and lawyers but ones who innovate and invent
products and services.
Agreed, 100%.
