... and digital technology. Plant was on the verge of quitting academia for good, when the opportunity of a Research Fellowship at Warwick presented ... center dangled before her, Plant decided to give academia one last shot, and brought many of her Birmingham students with ... film screenplay and says she can't imagine ever returning to academia. The CCRU hope to become a kind of independent think-tank, ...

... really read William Cook's ECOOP 2009 Banquet Speech on Industry and Academia. Very good! Here's an excerpt: The way I see it is that industry generally has more problems than they do ... technology transfer story to include flows in both directions. Industry could transfer problems to academia, and academia could provide solutions to industry. I want to emphasize that both these flows are of ...

... , probably the single greatest personal intellectual epiphany I've had since leaving academia is that the real world actually has interesting problems: not just problems that you ought to deal ... that are actually intellectually engaging, make use of the cognitive muscles you developed in academia, force you to develop new abilities, and expose you to interesting questions you would never have ...

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... hence why I considered it a good topic for research. This post is not about commissions, but about academia. I might, this very moment, be working on such research that might have a valuable contribution to the policy process, but ... did not align with my styles of learning or thinking, so within their standards, I was a failure. So alas, I am no longer in academia and this research is left undone.