The fact that Stanford University creates patents from publicly funded research then turns around and sells them to non manufacturing entities makes me wary of pumping any new public money into research at universities. They're clearly corrupt to the core now.

I haven't heard of this before. This is pretty interesting. Do you have a source?

There was recently an episode of Planet Money about one instance of it:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/06/10/481597112/episo...

Or somehow incentivize companies to follow an academic model.