not gonna say exactly how i know this, but here's how the process goes: researchers in universities have full-time paid staff to write for govt grants, ongoing "investigations" for whatever they're studying...long ago, those same researchers had their own outside labs, where they would duplicate the results, apply for patents and hold the patents themselves...then the univ's got wind of this, and started co-owning the patents, because the "discoveries" were made on the univ's time/employment, etc...that patent money never filtered back to the govt, and the researchers would be quick to exert pressure on the univ buyers to buy exactly what equipment/brand they specified, because they were the ones who brought in the grant money, they said...many times, the specific equipment was already in use in the lab, before the purchasing process was even completed...anyhow, government grant funds are where the money comes from...
not gonna say exactly how i know this, but here's how the process goes: researchers in universities have full-time paid staff to write for govt grants, ongoing "investigations" for whatever they're studying...long ago, those same researchers had their own outside labs, where they would duplicate the results, apply for patents and hold the patents themselves...then the univ's got wind of this, and started co-owning the patents, because the "discoveries" were made on the univ's time/employment, etc...that patent money never filtered back to the govt, and the researchers would be quick to exert pressure on the univ buyers to buy exactly what equipment/brand they specified, because they were the ones who brought in the grant money, they said...many times, the specific equipment was already in use in the lab, before the purchasing process was even completed...anyhow, government grant funds are where the money comes from...
I know the part about the grant writing farmed off to staff. I just did not know about the outside labs..etc. What a mess up world.