I was taught the industrial revolution got kicked off in america by samual slater memorizing the design of english textile mills

hollywood was a place for the film industry to build not just for the sunny weather but because they were far away from edison’s patent lawyers

and of course we all know how america handed intellectual property to china without any hope of enforcing IP, they seem to have developed quite rapidly

but i grant you USA and China may be exceptions, but stealing IP looks very profitable to me