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Industry–university interactions

JAN 01, 1981
The growing shortage of Federal funds for research is prompting universities to look to industry for support, leading to some imaginative and mutually rewarding programs of joint research.

DOI: 10.1063/1.2889965

George E. Pake

We have entered a period of exploration of new approaches between industry and the universities. There are opportunities for the evolution of stronger bonds between industrial and university researchers. Although many of the examples I will give are not specific to physics, these new opportunities clearly include research in many areas of physics.

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  1. 1. Communicator, Council of Graduate Schools in the US, “Some Industrial Perspectives on the University–Industry Relationship.” Vol. 12, Number 8, April 1980.

  2. 2. Science 209, 1492 (1980).https://doi.org/SCIEAS

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George E. Pake. Xerox Corporation.

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