The transfer of knowledge outside a country may create competitors to the original companies themselves. Chinese manufacturers are already selling their goods directly to their overseas customers, without going through their previous domestic intermediaries that originally contracted their services. In the 1990s and 2000s, American automakers increasingly turned to China to create parts for their vehicles.
oth the sociological and the environmental economic studies showed a positive attitude towards wind power in general. Of the 46 individuals in the sociological study only two expressed a negative attitude towards the future use of wind power as a sound alternative to other types of renewable and non-renewable fuels. The same findings were made in the environmental economic study where both local and national respondents pointed to wind energy as their favoured choice of reducing CO2 emissions. In comparison it was found that solar power and energy savings were among the second most preferred, whereas nuclear power and tradable CO2-quotas were among the less favoured.
