Many Universities to propel their academic research programs faster will partner with government agencies and private enterprise and this makes sense because it is a great source of monies to help propel the university and the businesses and government to get brilliant minds who basically work for free as slave labor.
It is your typical bull crap human exploitation tactic and it is purely sickening except that the individual student does get kudos, a degree and a much better chance at a future career with a very high paycheck. So in the end the apprentice does also receive some of this so-called win/win scenario and thus it works well and the ball moves forward propelling shareholders equity and quarterly profits, research and development and the University