chuckbert
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In defence of Oxford, as a university it is expected to maintain constant high standard of research capability across a multitude of areas ready for the day when they are needed, and it is impossible for them to recoup costs for the huge amount of work that doesn’t yield financial benefit. Funding a research university sector is like funding a peacetime army. (Except a lot cheaper). You can hope to save money by relying on someone else’s well-funded army...More than 97% of the funding for the OAZ virus came from UK government departments, British and American scientific institutes, the European commission and charities including the Wellcome Trust. Grauniad.
Only fair AZ and Ox University should keep the profits.
I have less sympathy for AZ because they can pick and choose their business without fault and they then scrounge profits and hand them to my superannuation fund.