&quot;Second: don&#x27;t get hung up on who invents what. Coming from academia, I was trained to fiercely defend my intellectual territory, pissing all over anything that seemed remotely close to my area of interest. Industry is far more collaborative and credit is widely shared.&quot;<p>In my experience, this is only true until there is money to be made. Or more specifically, that industry was more than willing to share <i>credit</i>, but ownership was theirs.