Money made by academic in grid computing technology (3,6)
I believe the answer is:
net profit
'money' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to property as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'academic in grid computing technology' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'academic' could be 'prof' (short for professor) and 'prof' is present in the answer.
'computing' could be 'it' (IT is an abbreviation for Information Technology) and 'it' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'net' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'made by' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for net profit that I've seen before include "return from business" , "Excess of sales over costs for potent fir" , "What's finally made" , "Earnings after all deductions" , "Actual money to be made" .)