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If the academics are being monitored, promoted and judged on how many academic papers they have produced and not on how much IP they have produced or how many spin-out companies they have promoted, there is a disincentive to push for commercialisation.
The asbestos dispute was mentioned, and almost all those cases have been settled. I do not know how many have gone to court, but I believe that the vast majority of those cases do not proceed to court.