http://www.pascalsview.com/pascalsview/2009/03/readers-comment-on-american-innovation-in-crisis.html Focused Commentary on the Family Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Board Governance Best Practices, Venture Capital, and Public Policy Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:12:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.pascalsview.com/pascalsview/2009/03/readers-comment-on-american-innovation-in-crisis.html/comment-page-1#comment-171 bulletgani Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:03:09 +0000 http://pascalsview.chime.com/?p=341#comment-171 The fundamental problem with many US universities is that when they produce PhDs they are producing TOOLs that other people can use. There is little distinction between research philosophy used in pure sciences (physics etc) VS research philosophy in domains affected by human activity/creativity. The consequence of this is that there is little distinction between problems that are interesting VS the problems that are both interesting and important (from market perspective). The lack of this distinction is reflected as small numbers of research projects being commercialized. If innovation in US needs to increase, one of the ways is for US universities to produce entrepreneurs at ALL levels ......... again "Entrepreneurs not Tools". The fundamental problem with many US universities is that when they produce PhDs they are producing TOOLs that other people can use. There is little distinction between research philosophy used in pure sciences (physics etc) VS research philosophy in domains affected by human activity/creativity. The consequence of this is that there is little distinction between problems that are interesting VS the problems that are both interesting and important (from market perspective). The lack of this distinction is reflected as small numbers of research projects being commercialized. If innovation in US needs to increase, one of the ways is for US universities to produce entrepreneurs at ALL levels ……… again “Entrepreneurs not Tools”.

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