Most of published research in the world is mainly funded by taxes (or public funds in general). Most of the private research efforts is R&D work that will not g

Most of published research in the world is mainly funded by taxes (or public funds in general). Most of the private research efforts is R&D work that will not get published. Yes some private funded research will get published (i.e Google research) but this is not the rule. So I would not focus on the edge cases.