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| Domain | Definition |
Law | An unlawful intelligence-gathering activity in which a person obtains a manufacturing or trade secret in order to make it available or in fact makes it available to a foreign official body, a foreign organisation or a foreign private enterprise or the agents of any of these. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The dishonest practice of obtaining industrial secrets belonging to one's competitors by employing spies or secret agents who work in the competitor's offices and factories. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
At the most innocuous level, the term is applied to the legal and mundane methods of examining corporate publications, web sites, patent filings, and the like to determine the activities of a corporation (though this is normally refered to as business intelligence), through to bribery, blackmail, technological surveillance and even occasional violence. As well as spying on commercial organisations, governments can also be targets of commercial espionage - for example, to determine the terms of a tender for a government contract so that another tenderer can underbid.
Most large corporations openly acknowledge the existence of departments to perform the legal aspects of corporate espionage. Many also spend considerable amounts on precautions to protect against the more cloak-and-dagger varieties.
The United States government has admitted to using commercial espionage, for instance using surveillance of phone calls to determine that a French competitor of a US firm was bribing Brazilian officials to obtain an air traffic control radar contract (it was later revealed that the US firm was *also* bribing officials). It is generally believed that most large intelligence agencies are involved in the practice.
The development of the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic aircraft, with it's rapid design and similarity to Concorde, was one of the most prominent examples of industrial espionage in the 20th century.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Industrial espionage."
Synonyms: INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGESynonyms: Espionage, Industrial, Industrial spying, Spying for commercial advantage, Spying on industrial secrects. (additional references) |
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Business | Security experts in the information age have to battle a multitude of problems – ranging from credit-card fraud and hackers to industrial espionage and computer viruses. (references) | |
Other operators in the security sector include private investigation agencies that provide assistance to Italian firms seeking to prevent and fight instances of fraud, trademark infringement and industrial espionage. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
industrial espionage | 26 |
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| Language | Translations for "INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | industrispionage (industrial spying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | industriële spionage (industrial spying), economische spionage (industrial spying), bedrijfsspionage (industrial spying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | teollisuusvakoilu (industrial spying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | service de renseignements économiques, espionnage industriel (industrial spying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wirtschaftsspionage (industrial spying), wirtschaftlicher Nachrichtendienst. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βιομηχανική κατασκοπεία, βιομηχανική κατασκοπία (industrial spying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spionaggio industriale (industrial spying), spionaggio economico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | peeikearys chynskylagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | industrialay espionageay espionagem industrial (industrial spying). (various references) espionaje industrial. (various references) industrispionage (industrial spying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
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-5 letters: antidepression, degranulations, dispensational, generalisation, prostaglandins, solitudinarian. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 44 55 53 54 52 49 41 4C 45 53 50 49 4F 4E 41 47 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 01000100 01010101 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000101 01010011 01010000 01001001 01001111 01001110 01000001 01000111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N D U S T R I A L   E S P I O N A G E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0044 0055 0053 0054 0052 0049 0041 004C 0045 0053 0050 0049 004F 004E 0041 0047 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)434838555354524335462395350434948354139 |
| 1. Synonyms 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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