An academic researcher is calibrated from the yardstick of his research papers published. His medals are the number of stars search engines have given to his article, or number of times his work is cited. Have search engines or research publication repositories indicated how many times has his research been actually adopted by the clients; how many products have claimed patents based on this research article etc.
Cut the story short and move to a new one...
A corporate researcher is calibrated with the yardstick of actual performance improvement brought in by his work. His work can be seen as a piece of creativity - inspired by huge business constraints subjected on his naive ideas.
Am I concluding something! Being less literate about our second story, its hard to comment anything on it. Can a corporate house researcher afford to carry his own experiments? Can he finally implement what he believes in? Can he take the ownership of risk he wants to take by introducing entirely new concept in the industry?
