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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

"At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". It was among the fastest-growing Chinese automakers, and it was racing to get into the hybrid market.

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What Tesla Knows That Other Patent-Holders Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Rather than worrying about car companies copying their technology, Tesla now hopes they will do so, in order to expand the overall market for electric vehicles. That gap is probably relevant in this market.”. It’s something different from just the aggregation of the knowledge in the patents.”.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Even in a Digital World, Globalization Is Not Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

Most of them focus on digitalization specifically and on communications technology, though some attention continues to be paid to transportation infrastructure (e.g., For more than 150 years now, new technologies have been touted as making the world one. Parag Khanna’s Connectography ).