The differences between the two lie just there. Lin Hua-ling indicates that professors have to learn all they can about a company's production system to understand what's going on and to do better research work, yet executives are often hung up on "commercial secrets" and unwilling to provide them with information.
林華齡就指出，為了及早進入情況，和做最完整的研發，來自學術界的教授通常必須能全盤瞭解公司既有的生產資訊；而部分企業主卻老是礙於「商業機密」，不願開誠佈公地提供學者研究資料。