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Moving Freely Between Academia and Industry

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There are many parallels between a job in academia and a job in industry. The core activities are closer than may be apparent at first glance. To illustrate, we discuss the careers of two individuals; one who made the transition from university to industry and then back to university; the other who held a full-time industrial position but also an adjunct professorship in a university.

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Goodwin, G.C., Graebe, S.F. (2017). Moving Freely Between Academia and Industry. In: A Doctorate and Beyond. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45877-9_17

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