Thank you.
I think the internship or co-op program in universities is critical. It should almost be doled out with all of the science programs in every university and every college. It should be part of the curriculum going forward, because nowadays as the kids come....
I'll give you my personal experience. For 30 years I've been running businesses, and I tell my son, “When you graduate and I have to hire somebody, there is a chance that I may not hire you because I will hire the best person and that person might be sitting in Seoul or Hong Kong”.
So they need to have hands-on working experience as they go through their schooling, which is absolutely critical in today's world, as well as multi-disciplinary teaching. Kids come out with a single-threaded education. It is no good to a business. They need to understand the business side of the education as well. How do you take a product to the market? What does developing a product mean? How do you launch a product? These are critical skills that need to be weaved even into technical training. Without that, the individual coming out is not quite complete and the businesses often tend to go where they can get that knowledge. So the training piece not only needs to be a compulsory part of the program but also needs to be expanded into the other dimension of multi-disciplinary training. It is critical for business today to survive.