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To: Brumar89 who wrote (39123)	8/21/2002 12:51:00 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

JohnM describes as entrepreneurial cultures - can't see that. That's OK, Brumar. John has gone out on a limb with this one. We are letting him saw it off. :^)

To: Brumar89 who wrote (39123)	8/21/2002 12:55:04 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Though I think it's not common in the humanities and social sciences that JohnM describes as entrepreneurial cultures - can't see that. Brumar, I think you misunderstood the point I was trying to make. It was not entrepeneurial in the sense of making as much money as possible; it was entrepeneurial activity as a form of working on one's own, taking risk on one's own. The metaphor gets a bit squishy when you note the university structure in which it exists. It's just that quite a few faculty exist in that much as free professionals. I use the term entrepeneurial on this thread as a sort of provocative bit.