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Commentary
Nature 453, 853-854 (12 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/453853a; Published online 11 June 2008
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A new relationship
Bill Destler1
- Bill Destler is the president of the Rochester Institute of Technology, One Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, New York 14623-5603, USA.
Abstract
Fuelling innovation requires a different kind of collaboration between industrial and academic researchers, argues Bill Destler.
The standard of living in Western Europe and the United States has been sustained for several decades by new products, services and businesses, the result of leading-edge research and development (R&D). Nevertheless, competitive cost cutting has forced the elimination of all but the shortest-term private-sector R&D programmes.
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