In response it made a succession of foreign deals, mainly in Europe, in its area of electronics and engineering, with the main aim of gaining know-how and better products.
According to Gonzalo Restrepo, Exito's chief executive, this deal was partly to gain capital to open new stores, but also to gain know-how.
Some experientially gained know-how might be involved, but it could generally be obtained by a wide variety of experiences in laboratories, medical establishments, or pharmaceutical companies.
Others suggest that, in the long term, movement to sustainable energy generation is inevitable worldwide and Germany will have gained know-how and expertise that will put it at the forefront of the change and create a new export industry for the country.
I don't just gain knowledge, I gain know-how.
"They'll hire local workers, and your population will gain know-how" -- nope, requiring local hiring would be prohibited under the TISA.
The product line was small and lost money, but Clorox gained valuable know how about the market and the challenges of manufacturing this type of product.
Experts believe that the sulfur mustard either originated from an undeclared Syrian chemical stockpile, or that militants have gained the basic know how to develop and conduct a crude chemical attack with rockets or mortars.
Make sure you know how to gain control of a situation.
"I've gained God knows how much on those Key lime pies!" (In the documentary, she wears clothes her mother would have admired, but today she's in a loose blue-and-gray sweatsuit).
Murcott says that, though he has lost the specialised aspects of his PhD in biochemistry, with the skills he has gained he knows how to find out about almost every science subject in the world.
