TURNING POINTS SEVENTY-FIVE
Disseminating Cutting Edge Knowledge Yael Hochberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship Ralph S. O’Connor Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship Rice University
I believe there are two roles to academia as it exists today. One is knowledge production, and one is knowledge dissemination. Knowledge dissemination includes the educational mission. You could separate the production and the dissemination of knowledge, but I actually think that if you’re doing your job correctly at an educational institution, you are disseminating the cutting edge knowledge that you are producing in your lab or office. You’re not just teaching the same stuff out of the textbook that was there twenty years ago that hasn’t been updated. You’re bringing people closer to what it is that you’re producing on a day-to-day basis.
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