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Many industrial and corporate laboratories, that had been at one time heavily engaged in cutting edge basic research, were refocused to have a greater and more immediate impact on production, allow firms to be competing on several fronts at the same time, make a more efficient use of internal resources and keep up with rapidly changing technology.
This process has naturally favored skilled but broadly educated scientists, capable of working beyond the traditional boundary of their own field, typically within multidisciplinary teams.
These qualities are at odd with the narrow focus that characterizes graduate student research in science doctoral programs across the nation.
Graduate students are under pressure to produce individual original contributions within a very well delimited field.
They are practically never encouraged to explore the possible relevance of what they are learning to other areas of research, or even to familiarize themselves with research themes or terminology from other disciplines.
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