"Far too many private consultants and governments are pushing for the diversion of money away from this kind of basic, investigator-led research, towards projects with defined commercial outcomes."
"Universities should be neither fettered nor reoriented as another branch of corporate research and development."
"Collaborations should be facilitated where beneficial, certainly, but not at the expense of curiosity-driven and public interest research, the very research to which we owe so many innovations."
https://www.caut.ca/bulletin/not-all-calls-for-public-funding-are-good/