As a researcher I would gladly do this. Unfortunately the funding game doesn't support this at all. I agree that papers are not good for knowledge transfer, bu

As a researcher I would gladly do this. Unfortunately the funding game doesn't support this at all. I agree that papers are not good for knowledge transfer, but they are required if you want to keep a roof on your head. Academic community seems to be unable do little else than complain about this. Even though at least in countries I'm familiar with (Finland and UK), academic community mostly runs the funding system as well, although some outside politics do shape it too. I think what is needed is public pressure to academia and politicians to fix this mess. Unfortunately any criticism of science from the outside seems to be thrown into conspiracy theory category, but this is done mostly by non-academics.