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Robin - Poll folks on high-impact engineers/business innovators. Then poll them on scientists. Bet you dollars to doughnuts that while everyone can name Warren Buffet and Steve Jobs and Gordon Moore and Larry/Sergey and God-knows how many other "heroes" in the former category, they'll have trouble naming a single active scientist (Craig Venter, maybe?) And I'm thinking of your university campus here. Walk around main street and the disparity is likely to be much worse.

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"It is engineers and business innovators more generally, whose status needs a boost. Scientists already claim too much credit for social innovation – they have little to do with most of it." [citation needed]

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