> academics who have never built a business, hired employees,
You don't seem to know much about what academics do. A large part of their work consists of project planning, obtaining funding, hiring people to do the research work, advertise the results to get other people to contribute and so on. Only junior academics can really focus on the research. From a certain level of seniority, many academics are really research managers. It's very much building a business.
You don't seem to know much about what academics do. A large part of their work consists of project planning, obtaining funding, hiring people to do the research work, advertise the results to get other people to contribute and so on. Only junior academics can really focus on the research. From a certain level of seniority, many academics are really research managers. It's very much building a business.