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That's not needed anyway. Any inovation is usually spotted much sooner and promptly replicated. I mean something new, like "chimney radiators", "periscope exhausts", "double keel", etc. The drawback of the proposed idea, is that a new idea has to be submitted and that might be a case of copyright laws. For example, all the other teams might not know the details, but they get the basic idea. With such an organization, the other teams might be forced NOT to use that idea for a limited time and that certainly will increase the advantage...