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overheard at austin maker faire

In overheard, science on 19 October 2008 tagged institutions, religion, science with no comments

Big science is like religion, you just gotta do what the people before you did.

{innov, corpor, educ}ation

In slush on 29 February 2008 tagged design, education, inertia, innovation, institutional-culture, institutions, noam-chomsky, school, schooling with 1 comment

Said more carefully, the operational culture of educational institutions has more inertia than that of corporations. While it is clear that research universities innovate more than many companies, the past three decades of corporate culture and strategy have yielded many more innovations than their academic and educational counterpart.
This is not surprising: not only is [...]