Historically, a brilliant thing about academia was that it turned powerful ideas into public goods, by incentivizing scientists to publish research papers.
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That's interesting! Playing devil's advocate, many of the underlying advances of cool applications came from academia (zero knowledge proofs for crypto, crispr for biotech applications). What if you're describing is specialization of technology vs synthesis / applications?
Having some traditional functions of academia move elsewhere isn’t inconsistent with many interesting ideas still coming from academia. And with all the examples I gave arguably the most important ideas came from outside academia.
