{"id":330227,"date":"2010-02-16T20:56:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T01:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22416"},"modified":"2010-02-16T20:56:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T01:56:20","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-turn-good-scientists-into-poor-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330227","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Turn Good Scientists into Poor Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/thesword\/2010\/02\/dont-turn-good-scientists-into.html\">New Scientist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s science minister, Paul Drayson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bis.gov.uk\/nairne-lecture-science-where-now\">gave a  speech in Oxford<\/a> on the future of science in the UK a few days ago.  It is worth taking stock of his central message, one which has been made  since the days of Margaret Thatcher:   how can we make money out of science?<\/p>\n<p>He is a real science  minister, clearly not rolling over in front of the discredited economic  rent-a-wizards who   think the best way out of a downturn is to pay more bonuses and cut  investment in science and education. Unlike   his opposite number, he is yet to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/thesword\/2010\/02\/tories-prepare-for-major-scien.html\">promise  major cuts in science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drayson outlines the intimate links  between some great science and various industries, including the  business in   which he made his fortune. He points out how addressing practical  problems benefits&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New Scientist: The UK&#8217;s science minister, Paul Drayson, gave a speech in Oxford on the future of science in the UK a few days ago. It is worth taking stock of his central message, one which has been made since the days of Margaret Thatcher: how can we make money out of science? He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}