{"id":1877,"date":"2007-07-11T21:05:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/heres-one-suggestion-what-we-need-is-1-or-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T16:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T00:05:54","slug":"faculty-envy-as-motivation-for-the-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/faculty-envy-as-motivation-for-the-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Envy as Motivation for the Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Here&rsquo;s one suggestion: What we need is 1 or 2 faculty members (and successful entrepreneurs) to be crass enough to drive a Lamborghini to work each day. Other faculty will look at that and be green with envy. &lsquo;My research is better&rsquo;, they&rsquo;ll say. Academia is a competitive environment. We need entrepreneurship to be part of the competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.box.net\/shared\/3328gbvatc\">Picture it<\/a>] On how the mindset of faculty members at the University of Michigan can be changed for them to embrace entrepreneurship. A discussion today with an entrepreneur and employee of the University who works with start-up companies based on University technology.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s one suggestion: What we need is 1 or 2 faculty members (and successful entrepreneurs) to be crass enough to drive a Lamborghini to work each day. Other faculty will look at that and be green with envy. &lsquo;My research is better&rsquo;, they&rsquo;ll say. Academia is a competitive environment. We need entrepreneurship to be part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[166,167,165],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-startup-ecosystem-challenges","tag-faculty","tag-research","tag-umich","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}