The phrase "an incentive to exploit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing motivations or reasons that encourage someone to take advantage of a situation or resource.
Example: "The lack of regulations created an incentive to exploit the natural resources without considering the environmental impact."
Alternatives: "a motivation to take advantage" or "a reason to exploit".
So, data-opolies can have an incentive to exploit behavioral biases and imperfect willpower to addict users — whether watching YouTube videos or posting on Instagram.
In the absence of economic regulation, the infrastructure provider will have an incentive to exploit its monopoly power and charge a high price for the product.
To illustrate, consider a two-period version of the model where each consumer enters the market in period 1 with no switching costs, makes an initial purchase at some firm and then finds it costly to switch away from that firm in period 2. In effect, our model has only analysed period 2, where firms have an incentive to exploit or 'harvest' their locked-in (local) consumers.
Such issues could, for instance, arise when the holder of the rights for a given territory has a low economic incentive to exploit a work online and does not license or holds back the online rights, which can lead to audiovisual works being unavailable on video-on-demand services.
More fundamentally, natural owners of a community are those businesses that have a substantial economic incentive to exploit synergies between an on-line community and a preexisting business.
"Employers obviously have a lot of incentive to exploit the ambiguities and continue to manipulate the meaning of 'employee.'".
It would also deprive their venal local accomplices of the incentive to exploit public office for private gain.
The absence of external shareholders means there are no conflicts of interest between the claims of consumers and owners, leaving mutuals no incentive to exploit their customers for short-term gain.
In this country we tend to do our surfing on "big screens," which gives us less incentive to exploit our phones' Internet features.
