I get he gist of what you are saying is “if only we had cross company collaborations” but reality is that you’ll find people even inside the same company not co

I get he gist of what you are saying is “if only we had cross company collaborations” but reality is that you’ll find people even inside the same company not collaborating. Heck you’ll find professors sitting in the same hallway for decades who are working on the same thing and not collaborating. As for opening up data, as soon as the data becomes valuable to share companies do share it, but quite naturally they charge for it to recoup the costs of creating that same data. And when one company abandons a druf, they don’t just dump it in the ocean, they sell it of to other companies again to recoup some of the costs.