| dc.description.abstract | The thesis argues that the intelligence community has limited outreach to the private business sector. Only one of the four SMBs (one of the six informants) in the sample had read the governmental intelligence community’s open threat assessments, and this informant did not find the information relevant, but found the same information in media. The state finds that their threat assessments are of importance to the private business sector, and also find the companies security cultures’ important for national security. The sample does not believe they need more assistance or information from the state. The data indicates that media, and the informants own lived experiences are the most important sources for knowledge about economic and industrial espionage, and how intellectual property rights are dealt with in China, and how to protect their economic information. | |
