The Font of Wisdom ... Universities?

Over at bbgm, Deepak Singh blogs about the use of academic-developed software in industrial settings. He says the approach of licensing software from universities allows companies to "tap into the intellectual resources of some of the smartest academic researchers in the world." But because most of this software isn't given the kind of support and follow-on development of an industrial product, it can be tough to port these tools to large clusters, for instance, he writes. As industry scales up, Deepak wonders, will the use of academic software lessen? "I still feel that the underlying scientific research has to come from academia," he writes.