15.4. UNIVERSITY–INDUSTRY LINKAGE
As participants in a technological innovation symposium savored the food and drink in the Fellows' Dining Room at Churchill College (Cambridge University), Maurice Goldsmith (1970, p. xiii) stated, "it was easier to accept why the 'educational purists' of the past, in such a cloistered, cultivated atmosphere, had been able to contribute to Britain's slow decline in industrial efficiency by insisting on the separation between the university, technology and industry."
If a university can contribute to the decline of a major world industrial power like Great Britain, presumably the same university has the potential to contribute to the rise of a nation to a world industrial power. This would further point to the ...
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