Technology Incubation or Research?

it is a clear indicator that the focus of (some) universities has changed from being the progenitors of educated free thinking minds, to being money oriented power centers. imho.

The University of Fairbanks has shuttered its nanotechnology center because it focused on basic research rather than on commercializing the technology. Isn't research the point of universities? Have we gotten carried away with technology incubators to the exclusion of developing fundamental technologies and researchers capable of creating them?

It has always been true that the universities developed the foundation, which was usually sold for a song to someone like Japan, who would commercialize it. There are private universities that are for profit and needs to return a profit....(aren't all?) But the baseline is they are a school for learning.

As far as Technology Incubation or Research. as technology develops it is reused in more research.

p911

To me, it's just a natural consequence of "running government more like business." The two are intrinsically different and trying to force them to be similar is of dubious overall value.

I wonder if there is any kind of restriction on any one limited to do anything either research or manufacturing a product from research. I understand that funds are given for research and also for using research outcome and that is where some role of decision makers comes as they plan to do what they want do. For individuals it hardly matters.