What is the primary purpose of applied research.
(A) All of these
(B) Interpreting
(C) the development of methods
(D) discovering
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When you copy from one source it is called plagiarism but when you copy from many sources is called "research". This is the unpleasant fact of last century which is still continuing especially in academia. Billions of dollars are being wasted on precious man hours in the academic world in the name of research while millions of tons of papers are wasted printing "research journals". More than 80% of these are adding no value to the academia, industry, community, society, economy except adding another paper in the name of so called "researcher" and the university he or she is associated with.
Millions of academicians are hiding behind these "research journals" to cover up their humongous failures to impart application oriented learning among their students creating massive skill gap and producing millions of unemployable graduates taking employability index from 25% in 2004 to deep down to 7% in 2016 adding up unemployed or underemployed graduates in every country in the world when major economies are already facing severe job losses.
Basic research is fine for average students from HEIs to get an understanding and feel of research as part of their curriculum knowing most will never take up research in their professional life because 90% of employments available in the world job market are skill based, 8% are knowledge based and 2% are both skills and knowledge based.
Academicians who call themselves researchers need to focus on applied research and not basic research as those add no value to anybody except themselves. 80% researchers should be focusing on applied researches that has some practical applications being fearless about the success, failures and effectiveness. However, academicians with no real life industry or application experience will not be able produce a and scary to many applied research work and will continue to waste time on basic research of purely academic nature with no impact.
Here comes the question of research impact points ... and the Metrix for the same has to be readjusted by offering higher points to the applied research work over the basic research work differentiating the apples and oranges.
This is perhaps very challenging to many (if not most) of the academicians around the world and will send waves of jitter among them. No wonder why most people in academia see people from the industry as threats while a negative attitude about academic people strongly exist among the industry guys.
The world talk a lot about bridging the industry - academia but it doesn't happen so the producers of future workforces don not know whether their produce can be sold in the job market or not radically increasing the skill gap in every nation that is making ways for governments to allocate massive budget in the name of skill development encouraging to setup many Centers for Corruptions in every nation making some people richer but the ROI from students are going down so dangerously that parents are now reluctant to invest on their children as before, banks are not keen to disburse education loans, thousands of HEIs are closing down adding to the problems.
I talked about the problems so easily but solutions are also no rocket science as personally I have proved it over and over in different HEIs in different countries how easy it is to make graduates employable and give them a good career.
It all begins with academic QA and an eco-system in educational institutions that doesn't cost much investments but need honest intensions offering much greater ROI and sustainable growth for all its stakeholders where applied research is one major weapon for success.