These data points can be reveal relationships or personal information from shopping choices to health-care information, but are also used to commercialize services and perform research.
Companies that want to commercialize the service will most likely need to license the intellectual property rights from the various universities that developed it, he said.
Some MSM and stakeholders were also concerned that paying for testing commercializes a service that has traditionally been provided through the public sector.
"One of the most important parts of the judge's comments yesterday is the message it sends to the venture capitalist and business community about commercializing these services," said Hilary Rosen, chief counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the record labels suing Napster.
Waymo's commercial ride service in metro Phoenix, operated out of its Chandler, Arizona, depot, is relatively small scale so far, and CEO John Krafcik has said the company has both the resources and patience to commercialize its technology.
Technologies of 3G and beyond open up new opportunities to develop and commercialize context-aware services that utilize information like user location and social context.
To finance and operate the Ariane rocket and to commercialize space launch services with it, ESA set up Arianespace in March 1980 and gave it responsibility for operating the launch centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
The market in the United States for Internet access — cable modems, D.S.L. and other methods — is worth up to $60 billion, said Bin Shen, a vice president at Sprint Nextel in charge of commercializing the new service.
The product has already been commercialized and the service sold to various clients in urban planning and real estate.
In an interview, Mr. Reid said the opportunity to use New Zealand as the first place to commercialize the autonomous taxi service was a step-change in the advancement of the sector.
