In a letter to the Editor of The Economist entitled "For the sake of science" Professor Brian Stramer of King´s College London complained about Britain´s new obsession with Advanced Research Projects Agency and the projects that give a payout to the economy. On it, he remembers the words of the Nobel Laureate Ramón y Cajal about the unhealthy preoccupation with applied research: "An extreme focus on short-term gain will in the long-run risk severing the mysterious threads that connect ideas to applications"
PS - Also on Ramón y Cajal see its interesting book "Advice for a Young Investigator" especially on page 149 that starts with "Many scholars are accustomed to adding their own names to the first papers of their students..." that is most important in the context recently mentioned in here https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2021/03/camille-nous-gosth-french-researcher.html
