Mantis talking to itself

Author: Wang Dingding
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: This book includes the best academic papers and essays from the author's recent works, carefully selected with a focus on works aimed at entrepreneurs, discussing corporate innovation and educational challenges in the knowledge society. The significance of "reputation" in the process of human evolution from apes to humans is one of the modern "spatio-temporal" phenomena: scholars have fallen into a dilemma. On the one hand, the speed of competing for "intellectual property rights" of academic research results must be measured in "weeks" or even "hours" (typical examples include the rush to publish research reports on biological genes and gene medicine in journals like Science or Nature), known as "pursuit of speed." On the other hand, the increasing specialization of academic research and the globalization of data sources tend to slow down the pace of original research, known as "pursuit of slowness." Balancing both, if academic institutions force scholars to participate in the "publish or perish" survival competition, then, apart from "genius," scholars will either fall into a vicious cycle of "pursuit of speed" or become the "marginalized" individuals of the academic system.