The point of a university used to be being the highest pinnacle of thought. A place where people could have everything not related to intellectual pursuit taken care of so they could devote themselves to the pursuit of greater knowledge.
Sounds good on paper, but I'd question if that was ever actually true in reality anyway.
Now that seems to be replaced by a corporate campus
And? Is research less valuable because it's done by a corporation? Look at how much basic research IBM sponsors and how much Bell Labs and others have sponsored in the past. If anything, I would go the opposite direction and lament the decline in corporate spending on fundamental research. I'd like to see more academics go into the business world.
"Startups are the new graduate school" - can't remember where I heard that quote, but I think there's something to it.
Sounds good on paper, but I'd question if that was ever actually true in reality anyway.
Now that seems to be replaced by a corporate campus
And? Is research less valuable because it's done by a corporation? Look at how much basic research IBM sponsors and how much Bell Labs and others have sponsored in the past. If anything, I would go the opposite direction and lament the decline in corporate spending on fundamental research. I'd like to see more academics go into the business world.
"Startups are the new graduate school" - can't remember where I heard that quote, but I think there's something to it.