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Scientists shouldn't stay in a silo

Scientists need to be able to shift, not stay in a silo


By Peter Kerr for sticK

(sticK - Nov. 1 2010 ) The New Zealand science system, and its connection with the real world, needs to be much more flexible, and allow seamless movements between academia, business and policy worlds.

Speaking recently at the NZ Academy of Sciences conference in Wellington, the Prime Minister’s chief science advisor Peter Gluckman says “if Americans can do it, so can we.”

“We need much more permeability; allowing our scientists to move between academia, society, business and government,” Gluckman says. “We can’t have silos of people remaining in one spot, and this rotational attitude needs to become commonplace.”

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