"what talent would want to work somewhere where they can't publish research papers?" There are lot of people out there who don't particularly merit the publish

"what talent would want to work somewhere where they can't publish research papers?" There are lot of people out there who don't particularly merit the publish-or-perish ethos of academia and would rather publish only after they have something worthwhile to publish and not just footnotes to an established scheme. E.g. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/14/higgs-boson-publish-or-perish-science-culture https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/14/higgs-... and so on.