It's coming to the point where researchers that want to make a difference are actively choosing corporate research labs over academic ones.
> These examples are backed by systematic evidence...The figure also shows that the absolute amount of research in industry, after increasing over the 1980s, barely grew over the 20 year period between 1990 to 2010. Other data show the same decline
That seems like a cherry-pick. In that very same figure, you can see that 2015 is about 300% of 1990.
So from 1990 to 2015 corporate research spending grew 5% on average annually. I'm not sure how you could refer to that as "dying". Of course, the paper doesn't use that term, just the parent blog post.
I have no sense of non-tech research labs, and maybe if you exclude those corporate research labs are indeed dying, but the headline is click baity.
But this is just one unique case - where access to a lot of data and a lot of compute makes a huge difference.
I'm not sure that it translates to many other fields in CS.