Let me think through this clearly. The person who created this particular intellectual property is the researcher, along with the SME. In general, researchers are either professors or students. Looking at the 80:20 rule, I can confidently say that university professors and researchers are not entrepreneurs. So either we train them to become entrepreneurs so that they can see from an entrepreneurial angle that something has commercialization potential, or we give it to an SME where an entrepreneur can take it up.
The university professors in general do not have—and rightly so—an interest in making a company. That's again the 80:20 rule. There are exceptions like Dr. Praveen Jain at Queen's University, who has formed three companies, but those people are very rare.
There are two things that can be done. First, we can inculcate in the researcher, preferably a young researcher, the importance of creating a patent. In general he or she is a master's or a Ph.D. student, and you can at least create a bit of an entrepreneurial spirit in these researchers so that they see from a patent angle rather than a paper angle. Second, we can give a bit more control to the other side, which means investing money to show they are really serious about it.