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Industrial espionage is espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of the usual national security purposes. It is conducted both by governments and by private organisations.
At the most innocuous level, the term is applied to the legal and mundane methods of examining corporate publications, web sites, patent filings, and the like to determine the activities of a corporation (though this is normally referred to as business intelligence), through to bribery, blackmail, technological surveillance and even occasional violence. As well as spying on commercial organisations, governments can also be targets of commercial espionage - for example, to determine the terms of a tender for a government contract so that another tenderer can underbid.
At the most innocuous level, the term is applied to the legal and mundane methods of examining corporate publications, web sites, patent filings, and the like to determine the activities of a corporation (though this is normally referred to as business intelligence), through to bribery, blackmail, technological surveillance and even occasional violence. As well as spying on commercial organisations, governments can also be targets of commercial espionage - for example, to determine the terms of a tender for a government contract so that another tenderer can underbid.