Industry tends to have differing ideologies than academia. Generally academia is about open knowledge while industry is about closed knowledge driven by profits and greed.
Not saying there aren't some greedy administrators in universities, it's definitely a growing problem, but in industry it's the defining characteristic.
wonder if you’d be willing to share what company that you joined was? I gather an academic would readily give away the name of the institution that looked after them, hopefully the same would be true for those who make it in industry?
At the time, google was very open to its software engineers doing interesting 20% projects that led to scientific papers, but I wasn't ever able to join the research org fulltime and be a researcher.
Not saying there aren't some greedy administrators in universities, it's definitely a growing problem, but in industry it's the defining characteristic.