Academic research:
Is mostly basic research and is not creating anything in most cases.
Most research cannot find applications for years and/or will not forever. However, it will create new knowledge and new science.
Research subject determination:
The people are told what to do in the funding review.
Is fixed and aligned with funding. And, nobody knows how many people will care about it right now.
Is not necessary that the projects are useful for applications, but it should be useful for funding applications ("unique" is a key)
Can be anything noval.
Has less limitation.
Final findings are usually published.
Is more aligned to research projects which is publishable externally and(or) on high impact journals
Have more publications in the high impact Journals in the field.
Write proposals.
Tends to be theoretically focused.
Mainly publishes "positive" results.
Less funding and better focused in small projects.
Sticks on one project for long time or your entire life, for deep understanding.
Is more riskier because it is always a new territory
There are always new questions which had not been understood by anyone, e.g. world-wide.
Industry research:
Is called research and development. You will developing something!
Is also called professional research.
It is good for the people who frequently ask such questions:
Is my research useful?
What can it be used for?
Seeks to find solutions to immediate problems and issues.
Want to do research projects which have impacts on the products.
Characteristics of industry research:
Less publications
More references are from academic research
Tends to be organizationally focused.
Findings are usually kept private (more concerns when we are discussing with vendors or university professors).
Results are usually used internally to make decisions and establish strategy.
Shared primarily through internal documents, like TLP (Technology Leaders Program) publications and conferences.
Industry research is about identifying and creating applications from learning.
Problems tend to be more practical.
The people and engineers are not told what to do and you are a strategist.
Needs to be useful for the specific company.
More funding and better instruments
Have more variety, the projects can be changed every 6 months
Can publish "negative" results together with improvements since the "negative" help the company to reduce costs.
Is less risky because it is related to daily work. Once reason is that the research subjects are most based on understandings in academic research and are approved to be applicable.
Gives more time for life activities.
Most funding is towards to:
Applying academic research and basic information to industrial and commercial applications, which is development.
Building the link between theories and applications.
Research subject determination:
Has some limitation, e.g. limited more on commercial focus of the company, or department.
Faster movements
More dynamic, work on many projects and try to find one or two success.
Can be anything which makes the company runs:
More time-efficiently
More cost-efficiently
Btter data accuracy
Help people to make less mistakes from the learning to save time and reduce expenses.
Common in both academic research and industry research:
Some risks in research, for instance: spend the time but have gotten no output
Emerging industry:
More research opportunities
What is needed to do research:
Does not need master or PhD degrees, especially in industry.
However, it does not need a good structure of research design and, good focus, especially for the beginning, for good research efficiency.
Academic research: more thinking is needed.
Industrial research: more reading is needed.
The wider the project, the more the reading needed.
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