The list goes on and on. The auto companies should place fuel cell development in the commons. We need a new intelligent power grid for the production and distribution of energy. Co-development and collaboration within the industry, and sharing, is necessary.
Ironically companies from every industry seem to be prepared to share computing resources by increasingly placing their data and even applications in the Cloud. But when it comes to the really important exploitation of commonly held IP, we’re still nibbling at the edges. And in almost every industry, everybody suffers.