About uncertainty of research results, uncertainty career-wise, how the two interact and how it's handled by academic and industry researchers.
Some favorite quotes:
Junior academic researchers were aware of the fact that the number of faculty positions in their respective fields was much smaller than the number of researchers on temporary contracts competing for them (Alberts et al., 2014). Accordingly, they assumed that their own prospects of having a longer-term academic career were highly uncertain. It strikes us as surprising that, being in this situation, only a few of our interviewees thought about career pathways outside academia or about the careers of people who had already left academia. Thus, they tacitly assumed that leaving academia resulted in difficult job and life situations:
So, I am slightly afraid of this. Me and my colleagues, we ask ourselves, where do all the postdocs go in the end? So, they obviously can’t all become professors. But what happens to them? That’s scary. (Female, academic, PhD student)
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Another major difference [between reasearch at a biotech startup and academia] was that [at the startups] there was no individual attribution of the responsibility for projects and no individual credit that was associated with them (Fochler, 2016b). One CEO used an interesting metaphor to describe this difference:
It’s like producing a car. Here, someone adds the tires, someone the doors. But no one is the first author of the car. In academia, people would rather build a shaky car, tires just made out of wire, but hey, that’s what I’ve built alone, and it drove out of the garage once, and that’s all that is needed. (Male, industry, senior researcher)
Empirische Evidenz dünn: Keine systematische Auswertung, nur Zitate
Reputationserwerb in Academia und Unternehmen grundlegend unterschiedlich
Unerwähntes Risiko von Unternehmensforschung: Abruptes Beenden des Forschungsprojekts aus ökonomischen Motiven.