Being A Proposal For Innovation Teams
No, no, no! Science parks? The concept is all wrong. Science parks not, Science stops not. If it doesn’t change, if it stays as is, it’s not Science – it’s Status Quo. Or Art. That goes whether you are in Los Alamos (a nuclear weapons town), Los Baños (a university town), or Las Vegas (a gambling town). You will find science in all those towns furiously working, not hibernating. Science goes on! ¶ My conclusion? Whoever thought of ‘science park’ was thinking with his mind adumbrating, dictionary out of sight. The American Heritage Dictionary tells me a science park is an industrial zone, a manufacturing quarter. Science doesn’t stop there – it produces, reproduces, multiplies goods, industrial or consumer goods, things to eat, employ, experiment with, exploit, exhaust. Consider: a park is an area of land set aside for public use; reconsider, a science park is not The full essay
