[olliej]

“Poaching” implies theft.

Are you saying researchers belong to their university? Or are you saying once someone is a researcher they are no longer allowed to move to industry?

Also in my experience a lot of researchers are grad students, who move to industry on completion of their degree - does getting a job after graduating mean you were “poached”?

[sordina]

Is this a serious comment? Poaching is a pretty common term for actively hiring someone, especially groups of people from another position of employment. Similar to head hunting not referring to actual collection of heads.