There are challenges sometimes in first getting a breadth of data available to be able to answer a question of interest. For instance, sometimes with an economic question, you might want to have workers' compensation data together with health data. That's not always easy for researchers to bring together at this point.
There's a real need to be able to fund the talent we're developing from a student perspective and have them available to look into the questions, and then to also fund the projects that bring industry or governments together with the university personnel. That intersectionality of being able to bring the people together and have them work collaboratively on a project requires funding to be there to bring in people from different kinds of technical backgrounds, and ideally not only from the university sector but also people from colleges and other areas who have different technical backgrounds to be able to work on the problems together.