Switzerland's Educational Business

Okay keeping with the global theme, I came across this article about Switzerland and its educational system. Last week in switzerland the economics ministry took over responsibilities for its country's higher education and research. The ministry of the interior was the orignal reign holder. What's interesting about this is that research is one of Switzerland's most valuable export, amongst their raw materials. So why would the ministry of economics be concerned with such matters? This idea is a little unsettling to me. This makes me call Switzerland's motives into question. Are they looking to increase their profits on research? According to google's public data Switzerland, a country of 7.7 million people, has a gross domestic product of $492 billion and is continuing to rise steadily since mid-2009. This puts it in the top ten countries of GDP per capita. With the switching of ministries will this put an unnecessary stress on higher education and research to bring results quicker to market, so the country can increase profit and gain market control? In a larger scope, are we seeing a change in the purpose of higher education? Are more and more countries looking to the economic gain received from bettering the education system?