David Eppstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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: > One exception is SBIR grants which, instead of to large institutions, can
: > go to a small company (as long as it can be legitamated) with a little as
: > one employee. Hint, hint, hint.
: If you're hinting that institutional employees form small companies on
: the side in order to get freer access to their grant money, my
: institution at least looks very skeptically at such arrangements.
<snip>
Soon after I started my residency, I ran into severe problems with my
research. I eventually spoke to someone from another department about the
dead end I faced and he said he saw nothing wrong with my calculations.
What he then said floored me. He suggested that if I wanted further
assistance that I could use the services of an "institute" inside the
department--for a fee. That was indirectly confirmed by another student
several months later.
Academic advice which used to be rendered freely, without cost, by
professors (maybe because one did that sort of thing in an instituion
of learning?) has become just another commodity to peddle on the open
market.
I know of one Canadian government department that used the contractors at
one of its facilities to circumvent its own bureaucracy. If someone
needed a piece of equipment quickly, it was easier to get a contractor to
purchase it and reimburse it for the hardware than it was to follow normal
procedures. This reduced the aquisition time by at least a factor of 3,
if not more.
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