![]() ![]() However enlightened they are this will limit the beauty of randomness. This means that research is often narrowly directed at the objectives of funding bodies. Government Work The OreSat Star Tracker Camera: an extremely compact star trackersystem that uses an extremely compact 10 mm tall lens and camera sensor housing that is 3D printed out of CRP’s Windform LX3.0.Įspecially in the US a lot of research, especially cutting edge stuff is sponsored by the government. But, as a whole this kind of thing retards humanity’s progress at the behest of narrow interests. ![]() Of course researchers and universities are free to commercialize their work. Also rather than seek academic debate and the expansion of everyone´s knowledge over time innovations and work is packaged into bundles of IP. This creeping commercialization of universities and knowledge work means that a lot of information gets locked behind closed doors. A lot of universities also make significant amounts of money from paid research work that is either kept secret or makes them dependent on corporates or other actors. The hunt for citations and impact factor also means that rather than refining something important a bombastic thing is promoted as being wholly new. Often a paper is being written as foreplay to a startup rather than for academic reasons. IP licensing and commercialization departments at universities often try to guard IP and commercialize it more aggressively nowadays as well. Rather than refining a new technology with successive papers we´re seeing people blithely ignoring the fact that they’re all working on the same thing under a different name. We’re also seeing several universities play a game of IP land grab in several technologies. Well in fact there isn’t a story, its just a lie told over and over again. In several cases we ignored lies and over claim only to get criticized for not covering important stories. We’ve gotten a lot of frankly embarrassing press releases from Universities at. Universities who are More Interested in IP than Sharing Knowledge Now we´re going to look at the other main contributors to the Iceberg Problem: Universities who are more interested in IP than sharing knowledge, government work, successful things being kept secret and niche things being much more prevalent than industry actors could possibly think. Previously we looked at how NDA´s and strategic replication retard our growth and understanding. This in turn means that the 3D printing market as a whole does not allocate capital well, does not devote the right resources to the right things and replicates a lot of effort without a lot of success. This means that the true extent, direction and nature of the market is obscured. Often essential, important or very profitable applications, procedures or knowledge is not shared. The most successful students at Brandeis IBS and most successful people in life are icebergs.We lack a complete and thorough understanding of the Additive market. But the students that succeed are the ones who show up, go the extra mile, and do whatever it takes to achieve their goals and dreams. And even if this formula doesn’t pan out as perfectly planned, it is your job to get up and keep trying.Īs Brandeis IBS students, fighting for the best internships, the best jobs, academic achievement, and leadership positions is a part of every day life. In order to be successful, it takes hard work, sacrifice, good habits, failure, persistence, being goal oriented, focus, and risk. But it takes much more than just showing up or using your words in order to be successful. As spectators, we only see the top layer or the final result. The truth of the matter is that success is like an iceberg. And while we read books, watch television shows, and listen to stories of triumph, I don’t think we hear enough, in detail, about the journey and struggle to success. It’s easy for everyone to look at someone else and think, “wow, they are successful” or “they have a good life”, but sometimes we forget to ask ourselves, “how did they get there” or “what do I need to do in order to be that successful”. To me, the message is quite simple: the reality is that “life” is not easy and “life” is not fair. And although I wasn’t able to locate the exact source of the photo, I suspect that the “Iceberg Theory”, which was made famous by the writing style of American writer Ernest Hemingway, inspired this image. Written by Leadership Fellow Sebastian Scott, MBA’15.Ī few weeks back, as I was looking on LinkedIn, I came across a great visualization titled, “Success Is An Iceberg”. ![]()
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