# Universities have been pushed more towards applied research since the end of WWII Universities trend towards more applied research was accelerated by the US government both pouring money into them and putting them in charge of large military research projects This needs to be tightened up ## Related * [[Balaji S. Srinivasan on Twitter: “Fund the individual to get out of grad school.… “]] * [[weinsteinBretWeinsteinPrediction]] * Specifically the description of the grad school problem [[Graduate students are the labor in academic science and engineering]] <!-- #evergreen --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Universities+have+been+pushed+more+towards+applied+research+since+the+end+of+WWII) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Universities+have+been+pushed+more+towards+applied+research+since+the+end+of+WWII)