Picture this: you come up with a brand new technology to solve a problem that people have been puzzling over for years. Perhaps it’s a new drug to treat cancer, or a piece of machinery to accelerate carbon removal. You can’t wait to reveal it to the world — but when you do, another company nabs the idea from you and builds something from your intellectual property (IP). Dream over.
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