What defines a company's brand today? Is it communications and advertising, or the things a company does -- its products or services, and how it treats its customers? Ironically, the new importance of doing increases the role and importance of marketing and advertising agencies, and calls for a new way of thinking about what we do and how we do it.
Pre-competitive purposes / innovation / research / collaboration refers to early stage, multi-sector, “market development” efforts that aim to open up space and capacity for cooperation & competition by developing knowledge, expectations, standards.