industrial espionage

industrial espionage
The use of clandestine methods to acquire secret information for commercial advantage

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  • Industrial espionage — Teapot with Actresses, Vezzi porcelain factory, Venice, ca. 1725. The Vezzi brothers were involved in a series of incidents of industrial espionage. It was these actions that led to the secret of manufacturing Meissen porcelain becoming widely… …   Wikipedia

  • Industrial espionage —    Both the OGPU and the GRU began to collect proprietary and classified industrial information in the late 1920s. As part of Joseph Stalin’s plan to modernize the Soviet Union through a series of Five Year Plans, the intelligence service began… …   Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

  • Industrial Espionage — The theft of trade secrets by the removal, copying or recording of confidential or valuable information in a company for use by a competitor. Industrial espionage is conducted for commercial purposes rather than national security purposes… …   Investment dictionary

  • industrial espionage — the stealing of technological or commercial research data, blueprints, plans, etc., as by a person in the hire of a competing company. [1960 65] * * * Acquisition of trade secrets from business competitors. Industrial spying is a reaction to the… …   Universalium

  • Industrial Espionage Act of 1996 — The Industrial Espionage Act of 1996 was introduced on August 27, 1996. It was established mainly to promote the development of United States proprietary economic information produced for interstate and foreign commerce by protecting it from… …   Wikipedia

  • industrial espionage — in.dustrial espionage n [U] stealing secret information from one company in order to help another company …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • industrial espionage — in,dustrial espionage noun uncount the act of stealing secret information from a company in order to help another company …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • industrial espionage — /ɪndʌstriəl ˈɛspiənaʒ/ (say industreeuhl espeeuhnahzh) noun espionage targeted at business organisations, so as to gain information on new technology, commercial plans, etc …  

  • industrial espionage — spying that occurs among competing businesses and industries …   English contemporary dictionary

  • industrial espionage — noun (U) attempts to steal secret information from another company in order to help your own company …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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