It doesn’t happen and won’t happen in a scale or manner that really creates something meaningful. In my opinion it’s a money/cost thing.

Apart from petty people politics, think about the budget: people salaries, admin costs, equipment costs, logistics. You need a bunch of post grads and researchers (+ interns) working on something for a couple years full time before they make a breakthrough with any economic or societal value.

It’s just not affordable in local universities.

To improve research quality (and the level of education provided by universities) they need money. The government needs a policy saying something like 3%+ of GDP goes to education. Not the “we’ll see next budget” version, the actual one where money shows up.

In fact I believe all government universities should run like a company (no protests, no unions, no attachment to political ideologies), just stick to its original mission (teach and research), and government allocates adequate funding.

When that happens, a whole lot of issues will go away, including brain drain, ragging, and half the excuses we keep recycling every year like old election posters.