While I fully agree with the outline of the change in scientific organization (move from private labs to public science in the universities), I think they have

While I fully agree with the outline of the change in scientific organization (move from private labs to public science in the universities), I think they have misidentified the reasoning. It is not the anti-trust deregulation, which waxed and waned many times. It is the fall of USSR, the end of the Cold War, and consequential reorganization of scientific financing. Public universities were somewhat anti-military, and didn’t receive much funding with potential military applications; all of it went to private labs. After the end of the Cold War, this situation changed.