And this is industry here. He draws another oval and looks up from his desk. Academia is interested in knowledge for knowledge's sake. And industry is interested in knowledge for profit's sake. Academia is interested in open discourse and the free exchange of ideas.
Industry is interested in restricted discourse and secrets.
Given the gulf separating those two, it's hard to believe that there could be any common ground between them. But in fact, if you look closer at Berneman's ovals, you see that they actually overlap. Those two worlds come together in CTT's office at 3700 Market Street, where Berneman and his staff help to launch new businesses, negotiate industry-sponsored research agreements, shepherd inventions through the patent process, and play matchmaker between companies and Penn's innovations. It's a burgeoning field. They've been at it much longer.