Spend any time in academia and you notice a flood of papers. Everything is "novel". Everything is "robust". Everything is "groundbreaking". Most of it is ordinary work dressed in extraordinary language. Walk through a place like RWTH and you find rows of people working on problems fewer than five people care about. Three of them are the reviewers. Ask them about bringing research into industry and they tell you that's not what research is for. Then what is it for?
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June 19, 2026