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From my brief time in research, the team that developed the tech often gets royalties for the work that gets commercialized, which pays salaries for future projects. The University where the work was done taxes that revenue, in exchange for having provided facilities (old hand-me-down facilities may have their value considerably overstated), and so they are dis-incentivized to encourage any changes to the status quo, because there's money involved.

You'd have to break that supply chain, and I don't know if there's any easy way to do that.



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