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Can Entrepreneurship Revive The Troubled PhD?

18 Jan Can Entrepreneurship Revive The Troubled PhD?

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An innovative Cornell Tech postdoc program aims to keep research at its core while pushing scientists and engineers to start businesses.

An innovative Cornell Tech postdoc program aims to keep research at its core while pushing scientists and engineers to start businesses.

PhD students once dreamed of lifelong tenure, generous sabbaticals, and a closet full of jackets with elbow patches. Academic life, with its dusty-booked charm, ruled the day. No longer. Even in STEM fields, roughly 40% of PhDs are graduating without employment commitments. Could the solution be teaching postdocs to create their own jobs, as entrepreneurs?

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