Maybe a culture clash? Academia is all about status and prestige - more often scientific outcomes seem to be a means to get the former (why journals don't publish negative results, why studies fail to replicate, why stuff isn't open access, why people worry about getting scooped, etc.)

Tech (at its best) hates credentialism (sometimes I think to a point of over-correction).

That said, 80% of the devs in the bay area seem to have gone to Stanford or MIT, so...