Universities are pretty well known for getting things done. Most nobel prize winning work happens in them, for instance. It’s just that the things they do are not optimized for being the things corporations do.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t be actually trying to hire people. In fact I have a post from last year saying that exact thing. But if you think corporations are the model for what we should be going for, I think we have very different mechanistic models of how research gets done.
Universities are pretty well known for getting things done. Most nobel prize winning work happens in them, for instance. It’s just that the things they do are not optimized for being the things corporations do.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t be actually trying to hire people. In fact I have a post from last year saying that exact thing. But if you think corporations are the model for what we should be going for, I think we have very different mechanistic models of how research gets done.