Breaking down the barriers that curtail industry collaborations and career moves
After more than three decades working for the same chemical company, Joan Cordiner accepted a senior role at a university. For many, she says, the move from industry to academia can feel like being a square peg in a round hole. Academic colleagues sometimes need to be persuaded that skills acquired elsewhere have value. But collaborations and career moves between the two sectors are crucial, she adds, in countries with ambitions to become (or remain) research powerhouses.
David Bogle, pro-vice provost of the Doctoral School at University College London, defines this \u201cporosity\u201d as the movement of people within academia and beyond it \u2014 including careers in government and the non-profit sector \u2014 and the skills and experience acquired en route.
This first episode of a six-part series about porosity also includes perspectives from S\xf8ren Bregenholt, chief executive of the Sweden-based biotech company Alligator Bioscience; UK entrepreneur and technology-transfer professional Nessa Carey; and US science journalist Chris Woolston. Woolston reports on Nature\u2019s annual career surveys, including its most recent one on salary and job satisfaction in academia and beyond.
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