Monday, March 4, 2013

The New PhD


Les comparto una interesante nota sobre un tipo de doctorado en ingeniería que esta emergiendo y se esta haciendo necesario cada vez mas en la actualidad, en particular en paises como el nuestro (Colombia), para adquirir habilidades tanto de investigación como negocios con el fin de proprender por la generación de empresas, starp-ups y spin-offs, de base tecnológica e innovación.

The New PhD
Student entrepreneurship and a dearth of academic jobs prompt schools to re-engineer doctoral programs for the business world

"..., the majority of today’s new Ph.D. engineers face a tough choice: They can seek temporary and comparatively low-paid postdoctoral fellowships, or look to industry, which has tended to view research-trained doctoral graduates as destined for academe and therefore an unlikely fit. ..."
"But now, a number of institutions have begun to prepare Ph.D. engineers to grasp opportunities and thrive in the industrial, commercial, and business worlds, either as employees of large or small enterprises or as entrepreneurs seeking to turn their own research into marketable products."

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