more importantly, have money in DARPA+NIH+NSF like institutions and find some success metric that lets you reward fundamental basic science rather than things t

more importantly, have money in DARPA+NIH+NSF like institutions and find some success metric that lets you reward fundamental basic science rather than things that are of interest to the military or commercial establishments. i worked on DARPA contracts for quite a number of years...they were...ok? but you still had to spend some energy talking about how this was going to benefit the warfighter or lead to something that was going to make someone alot of money NIH and NSF are certainly better, but my impression is that you still get alot of points in NSF land for showing a path towards commericialization