Example: Like them or not, we lost the video game industry to the Japanese years ago. It's taken American companies decades to win back even a portion of it. The Japanese firms so thoroughly dominated the field -- a multi-billion dollar industry -- that many folks even forgot that video games were invented in the U.S.
I am not as disturbed by that, as I am by the examples of scientific endeavor that we are forced to do oversees, because of US regulations. THAT is exporting knowlege, in a BAD way.
The fact that there is even such a thing as a "video game industry" should tell us a lot about just how rich we are.