This patent allows the process to be used without cost for research purposes, but requires money be paid to the patent holder when used in a product for profit.

This patent allows the process to be used without cost for research purposes, but requires money be paid to the patent holder when used in a product for profit. Is this a good way for a research organization - typically a university- to have a sort of "profit sharing" arrangement with private industry, while still allowing scientific progress to march forward? For-profit companies would not donate a fraction of their proceeds back to the researchers that came up with the enabling discovery. Isn't this just a way to levy a tax on those profiting from standing on the shoulders of giants, which can then be used to find more scientific discoveries?