Visa Backlog Risks Foreign Students' Business Dreams

BCEagle91
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:53:38 +0000

A good start would be to make access to research funding directly relevant to the
creation of jobs for Americans in the United States.



I don’t know how you necessarily go about doing this. There’s a lot of research which discovers something or discovers that something can’t be done or doesn’t work that doesn’t directly result in something commercially viable but it could be used in further research that results in something commercially viable.

This is kind of like the discussion of applied vs theoretical. Back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, bit companies ran research operations which spent large sums of money on research project where researchers didn’t necessarily have to come up with something commercially viable. That changed quite a bit in the later 80s as companies wanted applied research. I guess that we’ve left the theoretical to the universities now.