Arthur E. Sowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: > 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.
: I don't know about up where you are, but in the States, they often call
: these "institutes" by a different name: _incubators_. They are ready-made
: space-for-lease buildings, with suites of rooms, including labs, and may
: or may not be organized and built by institutions of higher learning. They
: do exist and probably maybe around 100-200 in the USA. Sometimes they even
: provide seed money. Then, your group goes in. Gets its funding. And part
: of the contract deal is that the institution gets patent rights. In phase
: II, after demonstration feasibility, the project expands and gets
: commercialized. That's assuming it succeeds. If it fails....obviously, the
: people and the equipment get buldozered out into the dumpster and they
: look for new "tenants."
: > 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.
: There is no ivory tower any more. "X" makes money or its worthless.
: Priceless has no meaning; Sorry, I thought it was a mistake for the
: Taliban to blow up those religeous statues -- where was it? -- over in
: Afghanistan?
I'm not entirely surprised. I've heard that, in some places, if a student
is having problems in a course, he or she could go to a tutoring centre
and receive help--for a fee.
What's next, though? Each time a student wants to discuss an exam with a
prof that it'll cost money?
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