Dear Terry,
Your earlier post asked whether my comment on rent-seeking and self-serving behavior described researchers and scholars. I answered that it did, and that researchers and scholars are as guilty of these vices as consultants and professional practitioners are.
I gave the post a new subject header to indicate that this was not a question about design thinking.
Despite returning to the original subject header, your question was not about design thinking. You discuss university research as contrasted with research in industry.
Your note suggests that you aren’t sure whether you’ve interpreted my position correctly. In my view, you have not done so. I don’t hold the views stated in paragraph two of your last post, and I feel no need to defend those views.
The substantive argument in items 1-6 of your post raises important issues dealing with different aspects of research, research systems, and research policy for the government, industry, and education sectors. You raise seventeen distinct issues.
While I agree with you on some points and disagree on others, this is complicated by what seem to be questionable conclusions from correct claims and distinctions that you don’t appear consider.
To respond to these seventeen issues would take an extremely long post. Both the correct assertions and the incorrect ones require careful framing and consideration.
This is not about design thinking. This is about research in universities and industry, as well as the systems that generate research problems, set research policy, and fund research. I don’t have the time to write a proper reply on issues this nuanced and complex.
Yours,
Ken
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