I have been fortunate to have recently moved to a Software Engineer role from being a research academic while being employed at an institution willing to invest in open source infrastructure. We recently launched an Open Science Software Initiative:
We have a ways to go to raise the standards for academic open source software, but I do think we are starting to some funding for this purpose. That said Julia’s package and Github architecture make this a lot easier. We just need to expand the tooling as we gain collective experience with Julia.