Strong incentives to maintain data privately has the additional potential
downside that data is not being shared across researchers, thus reducing the ability of all
researchers to access an even larger set of data that would arise from public aggregation. As the
competitive advantage of incumbents is reinforced, the power of new entrants to drive
technological change may be weakened. Though this is an important possibility, it is also the
case that, at least so far, there seems to be a significant amount of entry and experimentation
across most key application sectors.
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