Scientific Research in Academy and Chemical Industry - Dichotomy or Different Philosophies, Achievements and Consequences

Abstract

Disputes on the topic what is in common and what differentiates scientific research in the academic institutions and in the industrial research centers are ongoing among scientists in all fields of chemistry. New, original scientific knowledge in academic research on one hand, and successful scientific and technological solutions in industry, which have substantially improved life in the developed world on the other, have opposed these achievements and put them for various reasons in the concurrent positions. If dichotomy represents division of the whole in two halves, wherein nothing which belongs to one part can be the part of the second half, then we nowadays have a large number of prophets for this relation between two approaches to scientific research. This article offers argumentation which intends to remove this division in chemistry, and describes some achievements in research but also environmental consequences due to careless technological realization.

Keywords

• scientific research