For example, the university itself does not do the research in a shell. They already partner with a numbered company, which may be a military organization or it could be any of the others. They work in tandem with the university to find where the intellectual properties can be harnessed, and that is useful for spinoffs into a company to produce jobs.
Instead of the universities going around doing this, because they're not the right resource to do it, these people have the resources in order to go and evangelize the particular value of the patent and then find like-minded ones and give this patent so that new start-ups can—