Can you imagine how much we could advance if the whole of Industry contributed and published their 'non-secret sauce' research in the same way academia currently does.
>“The study has an inherent bias,” Dr. Flick said. “It shows that, if you want to get more jobs, you should be on LinkedIn more.”
How much faster would scientists produce findings if they only needed to follow laws and didn't need the IRB unless they were looking at experiments that might need legal exceptions. There is a reason we slow down scientists, now the question is how do we handle people doing similar but under a different name and funding model.
Not all of it is strategic or secret but companies rarely publish by default.