Exiled research institutes survive only by attaching to host institutions’ projects.

Evidence

When he and Pollock visited two associates of the Rockefeller Foundation to get more detailed information, it turned out that the idea had been not to support the Institute in independent research, but at the most to support work it might do as part of a project at another institution. … The intention to continue the policy of normalcy was strengthened by the fact that MacIver, the head of the Sociology Department, was holding out the prospect of associates of the Institute sharing in the departmental lectures, which raised hopes of at least one professorship for the Horkheimer circle. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 300

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the sociology of patronage and funding dependence found in the reader’s notes on institution-building and trust regimes — academic survival as a structural, not intellectual, problem. — connects to: Humiliated staff stayed because the Institute was exile’s only bastion for theoretical work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1096; Losing its theoreticians and its contracts made the Institute dependent on project grants. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 690; A funded research project can outgrow its institute and consume its founders’ work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 420
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Humiliated staff stayed because the Institute was exile’s only bastion for theoretical work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1096; Losing its theoreticians and its contracts made the Institute dependent on project grants. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 690; A funded research project can outgrow its institute and consume its founders’ work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 420

Broader Connections

• A funded research project can outgrow its institute and consume its founders’ work. #complicates (0.71) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 420