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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (78982)	3/2/2003 12:27:00 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

This discussion about entrepeneurs in academia is one we've done before. And we agreed to disagree. Your points are the same you made then. My points had to do with risk having far more to do with factors other than money; with the absence of direct controls over behavior, like other somewhat free professionals such as doctors and lawyers. While the feedback systems don't involve money, at least not directly, they do involve prestige, respect, self worth, and the like. Sometimes they involve money but the money stuff points to the role of central control rather than entrepeneurship. Raises, summer grants, travel money, department budget increases, money for curricular changes, etc. There are some control factors there. But few folk go into the academy to make money. So the entrepeneurial incentive structure, such as it is, is not about money.