Forbes: Science is lagging behind business

Technology and science have always been inextricably linked. In this interesting article (Forbes, 18 July 2014), editor Greg Satell claims that today, this connection is lost – while the rest of the world has become a highly connected place, driven by new approaches to data and technology, science remains, to an alarming degree, stuck in the last century. Timo Hannay, Managing Director of Digital Science, says that “science has been a cottage industry, but needs to move to an industrial scale where we’re integrating more skills such as gathering, analyzing and interpreting data.” Read more:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/07/18/how-data-will-transform-science/

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