The phrase "acquired know-how" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to knowledge or skills that have been gained through experience or education.
Example: "The company has successfully implemented the acquired know-how to improve its production processes."
Alternatives: "gained expertise" or "obtained knowledge".
Nowadays, in the context of CO2 reduction and gas turbine fuel flexibility, the interest in acquiring know-how on lean Hydrogen Enriched Natural Gas (HENG) is growing.
In a nearly successful end run around the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Iraq used a legal civilian nuclear energy program as a decoy to acquire know-how and materials for bomb making.
In acquiring know-how from abroad, protecting its infant industries, and using the levers of the state to hasten development, it is following a blueprint that most other developed countries used at some point — from Britain, to the United States, to Japan, to Taiwan and South Korea, to India.
As people acquire know-how that they can share cheaply with others and develop technologies that allow them to spread their goods and ideas over larger territories at lower cost, their incentive to cooperate steadily increases, because other people become more valuable alive than dead.
Goran Amnegard brought a book-acquired know-how of winemaking and 1,500 grape vines with him from Canada when he returned to his home country five years ago.
It has not only accumulated physical capital but also acquired more know-how, better technology and cleverer techniques.
The protégé acquired comprehensive know-how about the product, from design to production to fulfillment of customers' needs.
Through over a decade of interdisciplinary research on the vulnerability of biodiversity and ecosystem services to land-use change, he has acquired strong know-how in interfacing ecological knowledge and methods with socio-economic issues in support of decisions concerning natural resource and land-use management and policy.
The Transition Town Berea group holds monthly "reskilling" workshops to help locals acquire the know-how to grow their own food, weatherize their houses, and install solar panels.
