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Panel Discussion: Industrial Session
Pages 56-58

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... They were talking about high-speed trains that operated on super magnetic fields as well as many other possible applications of high-temperature superconductivity. What I'm wondering is, if all of our major research institutions are beginning to move away from open-ended research that has no obvious gain just the possibility are we heading for trouble?
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From page 57...
... This concerns people in industry by and large. If you look at the sentiments expressed by the IRI or other groups of industrial people, they overwhelmingly wish academia would stay out of product development and stay out of trying to make money and companies out of inventions on campus, and instead keep on refilling the pool of fundamental knowledge.
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... It was recently reported at an IRI Workshop that 3M's experience in managing and setting metrics for exploratory discovery research demonstrated the continuing challenge of this task. In an effort to improve the discovery research process, enhanced management in the form of metrics, controls, and stage-gates was implemented for this first stage of research activities.
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