Discuss industrial espionage on an international and a local level. Is espionage necessary as a part of business now that technology is readily available to do it? There have been spies for thousands of years. Until the industrial revolution, there was not much concern about intellectual property as a target of theft, but now it's all about IP theft, not just for national defense, but for getting ahead of the competitor's product development. Imagine the cost savings if your company didn't have to spend years and billions in research to come up with a product when you could steal that information from another company in a foreign country, and it would be almost impossible for that foreign company to enforce their IP protective laws on you in your country. Discuss and suggest a solution