“The Public Professor as Private Corporation, for the Public Good”

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Presenter: James Graham, Associate Professor, Department of New Media, Faculty of Fine Arts, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate and founding faculty member of New Media at the U of L is the VFX Technical Director with InsituMedia, Vancouver and President of the VR/AR Media Company Neospatial.

Drawing on recent research, and on his own experience as both full-time academic and president of a private hi-tech start-up company, Neospatial Corp., New Media Professor James Graham will examine problems in academia relating to private sector engagement will compare and contrast government funding strategies in the public and private sectors, and examine ways in which both sectors might be brought together for the benefit of all.

Some of the issues discussed in this talk will include: the increasing complexity and opacity of government academic research grant application requirements, including the Canadian Commons CV (CCV); generous and innovative government R&D subsidies and grants, and the risk of researcher salary inflation; the funding and innovation benefits that can be realized when academics co-investigate with the private companies run by academics; conflict of interest risks, real and imagined; the viability of the “profit/not-for-profit” model of corporate/academic operations; the problematic competitiveness of private and academic funding agencies and the private sector’s embarrassingly low opinion of academic/private collaboration.

Room or Area: 
L1102 Prentice Institute

Contact:

Nancy Metz | nancy.metz@uleth.ca | (403) 380-1814

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