When the focus shifts to the bottom line, basic research always takes a hit.
Technology transfer is just a subset of knowledge transfer.
An interview with Lanny Liebeskind, Professor of Chemistry Show me the money . . . A new drug to stop AIDS, a gene that heals broken bones, a group of cells that may lead to new treatments for neurological disease. For the Emory researchers who discovered or invented them, these fruits of long labor are ripe for picking. Some now say that technology transfer, or the delivery of such academic research into the marketplace, could be the solution to the looming crisis in higher education funding. There's a bull market for academic ideas.