> This only means that this research should be done by state funded universities and not left to commercial industries. As anybody who has worked in academia

> This only means that this research should be done by state funded universities and not left to commercial industries. As anybody who has worked in academia for long enough can tell you, state-funded universities are very much a "commercial industry" and are in no way exempt from market forces. There are a few extra layers of indirection, which slow them down, but the end result is the same.