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> Interesting. What about hiring people from the leading companies? Isn't that how a lot of knowledge transfer happens in all industries? Maybe it's not that e
by tablespoon 5y ago
> Interesting. What about hiring people from the leading companies? Isn't that how a lot of knowledge transfer happens in all industries?
Maybe it's not that easy. I have no knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing (let alone advanced semiconductor manufacturing), but it strikes me as one of those areas that might have thousands of very specialized crazy hard problems that all need to be solved just right to get things working. If you hire away some guy from a leading company, at best he might have a thousandth of that company's solution (and maybe that thousandth of a solution is only valuable in a path-dependent context with all the other solutions that leading company followed).
> Are non-competes enforceable internationally?
Doubt it. Though I suppose in some cases disclosing trade secrets for advanced technology my violate other laws.
- webmaven 5y ago> (and maybe that thousandth of a solution is only valuable in a path-dependent context with all the other solutions that leading company followed). Yeah, that's a real obstacle, not much of a "maybe" about it. I have a feeling that this, more than any other factor, is what is driving large-scale international tech IP theft. You have to grab stuff wholesale in hopes of either (a) teasing out isolated nuggets that happen to be applicable to your own efforts, or (b) recreating the surrounding path-dependent context (which doesn't have a well-defined boundary) in order to have a working solution.