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In my experience, it's already at the point where a focus on trade and craft actually hampers innovation in an academic context, because so much of the funding comes from industry. Most papers today are about safe, incremental improvements rather than bold new ideas, because there's no obvious money in significant breaks from tradition. I think we need to let academia and industry each do their job: academia can produce great, wild ideas and discover fundamental truths, and industry can refine them into something profitable.