Scientist says to get out of ivory tow

Thursday, 21 October 2010, 2:02 pm
Article: sticK

Scientist tells scientists to get out of ivory tower

(sticK - Oct. 21 2010 ) Scientific academics shouldn’t be looking down their noses at their colleagues involved in technological developments for industry according to Royal Society of New Zealand president Garth Carnaby.

Speaking at the NZ Association of Scientists conference, in collaboration with the Institute of Policy Studies at Victoria University, Carnaby said while there are two different cultures between scientific research and research that is guided or needed by industry, both are important for the country’s development.

“There’s a confusion in New Zealand about these two different systems as we’ve tended to treat them as one,” Carnaby says. “Unless we address this confusion, we will continue to have an innovation system that underperforms and an economy that does not meet expectation,” he said in a conference theme that’s re-setting science and innovation for the next 20 years.

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