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The type of research that is sought and carried out by most universities today is, essentially, a process of information transfer from the academic realm to the industrial and commercial realm. University administrations see this mode of activity as the only one able to guarantee financial sustainability. The smaller the possibility of reliance on income from fee-paying students undergoing tuition, the greater the degree of dependence on industrial research contracts. The question arises whether this mode is academically sustainable, and if so under what conditions. In this article it is shown that this mode is academically unsustainable and, hence, in the long term financially unsustainable as well. This is because, insidiously, this mode leads to decreasing reliability of the information and, hence, ultimately there will be no demand for it. In other words, universities must either reform, essentially reverting to their traditional role as bastions of independent, objective inquiry, or disappear.
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