The phrase "academic competitor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who competes in academic settings, such as in contests, debates, or scholarly achievements.
Example: "As an academic competitor, she consistently ranked among the top students in her class."
Alternatives: "scholarly rival" or "intellectual contender".
They often argue that their academic competitors do not have what it takes to train corporate executives in a truly customized fashion.
It's a classic technology story: Pääbo's breakthrough occurred only because he made a bet on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) when his academic competitors bet on different technologies.
But she says there remain opportunities to make the School stronger, particularly in the face of more academic competitors and an increasingly global world that demands new academic and professional skills.
Our academic competitors have much narrower wealth and income gaps and provide more equitable and generally better education than American schools.
But Schmitt was ousted from his position of power within legal academia in 1936, after infighting with academic competitors who viewed Schmitt as a turncoat who had converted to Nazism only to advance his career.
By sharing ideas, data, and resources with the Janssen team, his team can more quickly move from research in test tubes to animals and even people, generating more high-impact papers ahead of academic competitors.
But some academics and competitors said Mr. Grasso should rethink his plans.
In addition, respectable academics, business competitors, and consumer advocates are continually testing for – and often finding – potential vulnerabilities in smart devices.
Academic and industrial competitors worldwide are given problems of increasing levels of difficulty.
But paying executives more when they outperform a competitor (academics call such a reward scheme "relative performance evaluation") would have the effect of pitting one firm's CEO against the other and of inducing such costly price wars.
Firms seeking to benefit from open data face two key challenges: revealing R&D problems may leak valuable information to competitors, and academic scientists may lack motivation to address problems posed by firms.
