How Academics Are Trying to Be Innovative and Useful?

Academics are trying to produce their next paper and have it be impressive, he says. That's what the world wants from them because students want to go to schools with 'impressive professors' So there's not much of a surprise that it would be possible to be more original or even more useful than most academics - but they won't be rewarded for it. The whole system is trying to be impressive. It's not trying to be original and useful. You will just have been more original and useful and still most ignore.