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China Universities Waste Millions, Fail To Make Real Use of Research, Audit Finds in Indictment of Tech-Sufficiency Drive - Slashdot

Universities in a southern Chinese region are not doing enough to turn academic research into market applications, and in maintaining large piles of idle funds, and the findings could raise questions about the nation's ambitious tech self-sufficiency drive. SCMP: According to a new audit report by t...

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@TechNews Smells like anti-China propaganda. Saying that because ONE region has an issue, ALL of China does (and not even detailing what the connection even is) is ridiculous and sloppy journalism, at best. Furthermore, the point of academic research isn't always industrial application. In fact, rarely is it. This metric itself is flawed.

Should we get into the $trillions the US military spends on research that goes nowhere? hmmmm