There are many aspects of use of academic research for the benefits of society/ nation. Though there are many benefits are available in some literature. I request different opinions to get comprehensive view about it.
I think there was a similar question raised a year ago here in Researchgate that might help generate useful comments/feedback to this new question. The question raised earlier, slightly different from this new question, was "How we can make academic research useful to the society?"
Please, see this link: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_we_can_make_academic_research_useful_to_the_society