What is an interdependent culture?

When is, if ever, academic/scientific culture going to become more similar to industry/business culture, and what is needed for that?

• Academic culture is relaxed, but slow-paced and boring. Business culture is tense, but fast-paced and exciting. We are social creatures that need to interact in an exciting way. Excitement comes from dynamism (both internal or external). Academia takes away the external component. Will the academic culture ever change? EDIT: Since answers tend to mainly consider the provided details above rather than the question itself (if at all), let me try to re-focus some people and soften their defense mechanisms by providing relevant definitions of culture (from Dictionary & Wiki): "The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group: the youth culture; the drug culture." "... encompassing the range of human phenomena that cannot be attributed to genetic inheritance." "The distinct ways that people living differently classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively." "... an integrated system of learned behavior patterns which are characteristic of the members of a society and which are not a result of biological inheritance."

• Answer:

  I went to a top-5 school in my area, and I would not have called the academic culture relaxed.  I was more stressed during graduate school than during my first or second startups, or any other company I've worked for. I don't know what you refer to in terms of the "external component," but there are many external pressures in academia.  If anything, they are more visible: you are likely to find infighting at large companies, but competition for students, research dollars, and publications is mostly focused on researchers at other institutions.