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How academics and ‘big tech’ can learn from one another

Foreseeing clashes of cultures is the key to making industry-academic collaborations mutually beneficial.
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  1. Steven C. Currall

    1. Steven C. Currall is executive director for academic–corporate initiatives at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

For academics, working with industry’s vast sources of proprietary data and innovative tools can be enticing. But tensions, including competing interests, might make these collaborations daunting.

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Nature 645, 9 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02751-z

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