RickRussell_CA , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

All true, but where is the money for university research coming from?

I mean, some of those research grants come from the same private companies. There’s value to them in using that money to train the next generation of scientists, in addition to funding basic research they can use directly.

But, admittedly I don’t claim to know how the research dollars are split between private/government/other.

EDIT: Here is a study from UCLA covering 2010-2015 funding that shows about 75% of funding comes from government, and 25% from private industry, charities, or other non-government sources.