I think the dissemination part is a collective action problem. Simply put, society has not set up opportunities to induce/encourage researchers outside the acad

I think the dissemination part is a collective action problem. Simply put, society has not set up opportunities to induce/encourage researchers outside the academic scaffolding to share their work. Given that, it comes down to a question of who cares most about the dissemination. If neither the person who would be writing, nor the putative audience cares about it enough, who would want to put effort into the dissemination process? Creating such a two-sided market for research output is a hard problem, roughly analogous to what Uber has done for ride-sharing. The current academic/think-tank setup is an intricate triangle consisting of the grant process to match donors with researchers seeking funds, the publication process to match research output to downstream demands, and publication metrics (citation count, reputation, impact factor, etc.) to match downstream demands with funding agencies.