That's a good question. I'm going to answer hypothetically, obviously.
I think it's actually trivial, if you want to, for example, fund a large body of research. I'm not even sure you would need the funding. You could do other things to make sure that work is published, cited and eventually ending up in policy documents, guidelines and regulations.
I'm not talking about any particular area or field here, but I think it is not that hard to move a field in a particular direction, based on pushing on publishing levers.