26 JAN 2022 BY ADAM RUBEN
When I was in grad school, we had one professor in our department known as The Guy From Industry. Unlike his colleagues, who had presumably hatched from leathery postdoctoral eggs directly into the tenured positions they would hold for the next 600 years, this professor had ventured outside academia for a time.
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-academics-shouldn-t-add-insult-industry