Education and research can be considered as important investments in society. Government financing greatly outweighs market relationships, but policy today aims at more involvement of industry. Government regulations relating to universities appeared to be an insufficient guarantee that research generates applications. In order to improve the knowledge transfer several measures have been taken concerning education and the financing structure for universities, including shorter graduation time, another system of financing for research, revolving funds and deregulation. It is hoped that the re-establishment of the pricing mechanism will be profitable for market relationships relating to research and education.