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  • krp67 replied to the topic Discussion Topic: Academia vs. Industry in the forum Introduction to Medical Device Development 6 years, 11 months ago

    Undeniably we can say that industry has a demand that is sometimes unreasonable wither it be time given for a project, the quantity of something to be mass produced. With industry “cut corners” tends to be at the expense of quality. The demand placed on academia is not unreasonable but rather the opposite. In academia, the demand placed on someone is not unreasonable but like a long extended vacation, one is on. When it comes to compensation academia tends to be cheap with paying their highly educated colleagues. Whereas with industry the pay is what makes worth doing the job in some respect. I have heard from various Ph.D. students the salary they make and it goes with the relaxed pace of the job for sure, however, we have minds willingly to be cutting edge information out there which companies had acquired at some point in time.