vansig wrote: I’ve experienced the opposite: extreme paranoia and protectiveness within academics, because there are limited research dollars to go around.
But for pure academics (i.e., those without commercial ties), publication is the coin of the realm — it’s what gets you tenure, it’s what gets you promoted, it’s what builds your reputation. Such researchers may not share unpublished work, but that’s because they are eager to scoop others in official published articles. In other words, the motivation in academics is to “share” via publication. There is no such motivation for commercial research.
