Posted by Kees de Vos on September 03, 1999 at 06:14:23:

In Reply to: Re: Beyond the "Stovepipes" of Industry & Academia posted by Reilly Atkinson on September 02, 1999 at 21:46:22:

Reily,

I subscribe to your view. Science is liberating. However, I believe that the issue Yogesh addresses (or Churchman, to be exact), is that the (formal and informal) organization of science tends to restrictive.

The "recognition system" in science has long been by review by superiors (professor-student) or peer-review. Being at the cutting edge of human knowledge, science has developed from Renaissance's "Doctor Universalis"'s to EXTREME specialization. Therefore review was almost always centered at this specialized area. Or put it differently, only few know about a certain specialized area, even fewer know about more than one specialized area, making peer-recognition even harder.

Boundary-breaking research hardly gets the scientific recognition it deserves, UNTIL an application in real-life is created.

So in my view you and Yogesh are right;
- science is good;
- the organisation of science might not be, and it is the organization of science that is being evolutionized(!) by forums like Brint. I speak of evolution because publication of science isn't new, it's the EASE of boundary crossing publication and peer-review that's new.

Being a MBA, I would perhaps never wandered into the worlds of Biochemistry (Like Kaufmann's book At Home in the Universe) or gained insights from your experience in physics. I would have stuck to reading the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, etc. as my mentors did, hereby helping to build the walls that seperate the disciplines.

Kees.

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