Thinktanks ‘have stolen universities’ clothes’

Academics should not be expected to sacrifice the little time they have to conduct basic research for marketing their findings. Instead, they should have incentives to do more basic research, and the translation work can be left to knowledge transfer partnerships and similar activities that give researchers the necessary incentive through a teaching or leadership buy-out.

It is not just about communition. Academics are caught in the quagmire of the publishing process while think-tanks face no such constraints. People keep working on papers for ages to get published in topmost journals because that is what counts for their careers, when in that time they could be working on multiple projects if they just concentrated on doing good research and not just publishing in those journals at any cost.