Letters: December 2019
You tell us what you think about emissions and industry-academic partnerships, and add some historical context
The otherwise excellent article on ‘How to get research funding from industry’ (Chemistry World, November 2019, p59) fails to take into account two key factors. The first is the unrealistic expectations of the academic institution, with its business development managers trying to get a disproportionate amount of money from the company in order to justify their existence. The second is the company business managers, who, having reluctantly funded what was sold as a comprehensive internal research programme, can’t understand why they are now being tapped up for money for academia, which they regard as leaking like a sieve anyway. Oh happy days!