I say this as a university lecturer who has not remained in the comfort of lecture rooms and journals.
I teach. I publish. I supervise students. But I also build companies, test materials, develop products, work with contractors, set up production systems, train technicians, own mineral licences, and try to move knowledge from the university into industry. So I fully understand the frustration when academia looks disconnected from society.
But publications are not the enemy.
A publication is how knowledge is tested, recorded and shared. Many of the technologies we celebrate today began first as research before they became products, industries and jobs. The problem is not that professors publish. The problem is that we have not built strong enough bridges between knowledge and production.
And here is where I think we must be more honest. Our commerce does not sufficiently reward production. It often rewards importing, brokering, trading and distributing more than it rewards designing, manufacturing, testing, improving and scaling local products. In such an economy, even good research struggles to become industry.
So yes, let us demand more impact from universities. Let us ask professors to engage society, industry and government more directly. But let us not pretend that counting publications is the root problem. The deeper problem is an economy that has not created enough pathways for knowledge to become products, enterprises, standards, policies and jobs.
We need professors who write, and we need professors who build. More importantly, we need a country that rewards those who turn knowledge into productive value.
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It reflects three truths of life: progress needs consistent effort, navigating different environments requires adaptability, and success remains meaningful only when rooted in values and purpose.
Notice where you can bring this into the way you live today.
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