&gt;  Industry is far more collaborative and credit is widely shared.<p>This couldn&#x27;t be farther from the truth. Your idea&#x27;s are generally credited to the company, which in turn is credited to the CEO or some other high up. On collaboration, it&#x27;s only more collaborative <i>within a given company</i>, and not always even then. Between companies it&#x27;s outright hostile to collaboration by definition.