The philosophies are very different. You have: 1. Low hanging fruit (business) vs. high hanging fruit (science). Businesses can not pursue leads which may on

The philosophies are very different. You have: 1. Low hanging fruit (business) vs. high hanging fruit (science). Businesses can not pursue leads which may only have long time payoffs. 2. Only leads with visible benefit are pursued by business. Whereas science believes that discoveries may have benefits far beyond any visible benefit. Thus if a society ditches research without any immediate benefits academics believe society would advance much slower.