[skosuri]

They do. Most universities also rely on other sources to supplement research including donations, endowment spending, ip, and even tuition.

[Retric]

When a university’s are extracting more money from doing research on net then they invest in research that’s not funding. They do get rather creative with accounting, but that’s irrelevant to this discussion.

EX: A students tuition paid for by a research grant does not count as R&D spending by the University or even R&D.