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precompetitive

precompetitive

7.8
Work that companies do together to share basic research before they compete commercially
  • adjective
  • /ˌpriːkəmˈpɛtɪtɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : precompetitivo
  • The forum was focused on precompetitive strategies that would benefit all participants in the technology sector.

Examples

  • Companies often share findings from precompetitive studies to advance the entire industry.

  • The successful crash-test result is the most significant accomplishment of the ACC, which was founded in 1988 to foster precompetitive research cooperation that would accelerate the development of low-cost, reliable composite car and truck structures suitable for large-scale production.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The DARPA managers deemed the safety containment issue a key precompetitive technology appropriate for a cost-shared cooperative research effort.

    Academic text (1996)

  • NIST, along with the Energy Department's laboratories and the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, is now under explicit orders to make deals with commercial firms in so-called generic, precompetitive technologies.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The research team collaborated on a precompetitive project to develop new materials for safer cars.

Surface Forms

precompetitive positive

Morphology

precompetitive = competitive (semi-transparent) = pre + compete + ive

The prefix clearly means 'before', but the conventional sense of joint early-stage research is more specific than the morphology alone guarantees.

Etymology

Precompetitive combines pre- meaning 'before' and competitive from compete meaning 'to try to win'. So in business or research it means work done together before companies compete, often to share basic knowledge that helps everyone.