I used to work for a guy that had a wireless speaker system he wanted to produce commercially. This was back in 1992. He contracted with a company in Taiwan to build it and they stole it..............
The Japanese are also thought to ‘borrow’ technology. I was in Osaka once, having dinner with a Chinese man and Japanese woman. I was trying to make conversation (after a 13 hour flight and a long bus ride from the airport) and asked what the similarities were between Chinese and Japanese characters. The Chinese man said that the Japanese characters were based upon Chinese characters. The Japanese woman said, ‘yes, we incorporate things and make them better’. It’s a different mindset than we are used to.