The universities also have a major cost advantage. They dangle the possibility of a tenured job in exchange for getting PhDs to work for $45k as post doc resea

The universities also have a major cost advantage. They dangle the possibility of a tenured job in exchange for getting PhDs to work for $45k as post doc researchers. Even if primary research does have a payoff in the future, it makes more sense for universities to do it at 1/3 the cost and guaranteed government backing. Maybe the government and universities have squeezed the corporate sector out of research?