There is a middle ground.... Still have many teams trying to achieve the goal, but prevent corporate secrecy - effectively allowing competitors to look over ea

There is a middle ground.... Still have many teams trying to achieve the goal, but prevent corporate secrecy - effectively allowing competitors to look over each others shoulders and copy good data and ideas. Such a system probably wants to compensate those whose ideas were copied, but that isn't strictly necessary - another approach is to simply make it illegal not to share data/results. Your compensation is your freedom from prison.