Universities provide an environment for learning and inspirations ideas. Joy Laskar, an electrical engineering professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, lost his job three years ago due to being accused of using University resources and students for his own personal benefit. Joy Laskar has created a wireless chip that has spiked the interest of companies such as Samsung and Qualcomm. Certainly I have to agree that the main purpose of resources at a university should be used to educate and to help assist students.

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Looking at this case strictly from the Universities perspective, professor Laskar was wrong for using up precious resources that are dedicated for students. However, I believe that having a professor who is making a difference in his society and being entrepreneurial is a motivational factor for students. I am sure that the students that assisted him in his achievement of the wireless chip also learned a lot. From an accounting perspective, the professor was costing the university money for using precious resources allocated to students. However, in a marketing perspective, having a professor who is capable of breaking new ground is his field actually attracts students to want to learn from them.

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