IMPACTROOM for managers, marketeers and mothers*: Science + Industry = Sciendustry

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Science + Industry = Sciendustry

The Future Leadership Program of The Wall Street Journal Europe contains now 165 top universities and business schools or 180 campuses. It is by far the newspaper with the strongest campus penetration in Europe. To create extra value on top of the physical distribution of our newspaper into universities, I created The WSJE Future Leadership Institute.

The WSJE Future Leadership Institute is a virtual institute that acts as a bridge between university and industry. More and more I see and experience the differences between the world of science and the world of industry. The difference between both worlds is primarily based on different rewarding systems. He who wants to score in the universitary world has to produce articles, he who wants to score in the industry has to sell products.

It is clear that there is a growing industry to be found on the border of university (science) and industry, bridging both worlds. It is the playing field of the "Sciendustry". (To my surprise the domainname was still for sale, so I quickly cornered the term :-)

More about the "Sciendustry" in posts to follow.

About Impactroom

Impactroom is a personal research blog on life, leadership and management issues by Gert Van Mol.

Gert Van Mol founded The Wall Street Journal Europe Future Leadership Institute (later to become 'The Future Leadership Institute') as well as The International Student Senate. He is also Non-Executive Director EU Policy at OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). Between 2011 and 2013 he was CEO of the TV station Life!tv. In 2013 he became CEO of Skyview, an Amsterdam company installing permanent Giant Ferris Wheels in top tier European cities. In 2015 he was asked to execute the Chapter 11 (WCO) conditions of www.foto.com for the Belgian court of Nivelles.

About the Impactroom idea

Impactroom evolves around questions such as: What is the difference between a manager and a leader ? Should we read expensive managementguru books or just pass them around as gifts ? Are excellent male managers better fathers ? Why are managers spending more time with their colleagues than with their own family ?

About the 'Mothers*' in the title of this blog? Mothers are managers by nature, although they don't see it that way most of the time. Important lessons are to be learned from women with children. They are the future topmanagers.

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