Professor Eliot SOREL made very pertinent comments on “21st Century Business and Science Partnerships” – published on September 6, 2016, on the website of the prestigious “The Wilson Center/ The Global Europe Program.
The professor argues that Business and Science partnerships benefit from the combined intellectual, innovative, and financial assets of academics and academic centers as well as those of entrepreneurs and private enterprises keen to team up and partake in these emerging transdisciplinary platforms of potential mutual benefit and of benefit to human progress, societal development, and enhancing the longevity and quality of life. He emphasizes, among others, that a transparent bioethics code informing and guiding these rapidly emerging innovative partnerships should be part of professional schools’ training as an integral component of the graduate curriculum.
Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/21st-century-business-and-science-partnerships
We also have to remember the wise words of the twenty-eighth President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson: “It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization”.