Shooting for the Moon: How Universities Can Turn Innovation into Companies

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10 pointsalexandros2 comments

I really doubt this would work. The reason hardly .1% of academic work makes it into technology is because the vast majority of it has no practical application whatsoever.

And aside from that, there's a huge problem with the volume of material published. Even academics themselves have trouble keeping up with all the work that's published in their own narrow field. You can spend every day reading literature for years without once encountering a marketable idea.

It seems that the more practical answer to this problem which bypasses the problem is to make friends with people in fields you think may have lasting impact: if they do come across something marketable and you have capital, they'll turn to you first.

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