"Lemur" asked how "... prevents certain industries or individuals from getting cut off completely..." and warning about "...losing intelligent minds...".
There are two different level of science - pure creativety of mind and research for practical ends that call for larger resources.
First one requires very little resources, why "Lemur" is warning about it?
After all, why not let such individuals keep their regular work and use on their free time Universities and Companies space for their personal work, along with Government live support and ownership of priorities and royalties support for such scientists?
It is what they did in former USSR, before1947, when Stalin was put under house arrest and Russians started enforce and plagiarize such scientists to glorify and get rich ethnic Russians.
Unfortunately West continued to pressure USSR even further, untill they closed Offices of Discoveries and Inventions, all together, and joined with Western practices - plagiarize and expropriate creativety, while investing in development of already "approppriated" general acheivements.
That would make the statement used by "Pioneer" about "...necessity is the mother of invention..." quite unnecessary, or redundand.
Another reply is offering "sharing our toys" - is it about already "approppriated" general acheivements?
Now one waits for China to follow Russia, so that some "..post-doc..." ...wouldn't "...work 16 hours a day on something..."
