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Rice: The US Has No 'Plan B' for Fundamental Research Outside Universities
“Commercial entities can't wait, and so having the fundamental research in universities, absolutely critical, and my concern is we don't have a plan B. You know, if it's not going to be done in universities, where is it going to be done?”
Rice: Universities would forfeit 11 points of overhead to reduce federal reporting
“So I would trade the federal government 11 points on what's called the indirect cost recovery. In other words, the overhead that the government pays. I trade 11 points if you don't make me report, ah, to the degree that you do.”
Rice: Silicon Valley disruption methods cannot easily transfer to government
“What you can do in the Valley, what you can do in business, you can't always do in the political realm. The political realm the government has functions that businesses don't have. Has many, many, many more veto groups, and many, many more constituencies that …”
Rice: University endowments are far less flexible than headline figures suggest
“That is the, of that 37 or thirty eight billion, a lot of that money was given by people who gave it very specific things, and you can only use that payout for very specific things. So those are big numbers, but they're, it's not as flexible as people think.”