To keep the costs of knowledge transfer low, they considered trying to codify the acquired know-how.
But it is done there not so much to make money, nor even to bar others from using the acquired know-how.
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.
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.
He has even stressed following "global trends" by reaching out to other countries and using the Internet to acquire technological know-how from overseas.
Training programs in Hong Kong now provide opportunities for would-be watchmakers to acquire Swiss know-how and a sprinkling of new brands, such as The Chinese Timekeeper, are taking to the international market.
By so doing, it would help prevent political turmoil and win strategic influence in the region.In America, the article suggested, China should buy up businesses in order to acquire sophisticated know-how.
But Beijing's concerted effort at home and abroad to acquire foreign know-how already sounded the alarm in Washington.
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.
The primary reason for our other 2017 acquisitions was to acquire technologies and know-how to enable Amazon to serve customers more effectively". Among these were home automation, e-commerce and AI businesses.
