Colleges Universities: Breadth Intensity and Vice Chancellor

colleges universities: It was no random query, according to The Japan Times. The FBI has been reaching out to colleges and universities across the country as it tries to stem what American authorities portray as the wholesale theft of technology and trade secrets by researchers tapped by China. In an email to the associate vice chancellor for research at the University of an agent wanted to know if administrators believed Huawei had stolen any intellectual property from the school. ; Told no, the agent responded I assumed those would be your answers, but I had to ask. The breadth and intensity of the campaign emerges in emails obtained through records requests to public universities in 50 states. Agents have lectured at seminars, briefed administrators in campus meetings and distributed pamphlets with cautionary tales of trade secret theft. The emails underscore the extent of U.S. concerns that universities, as recruiters of foreign talent and incubators of cutting-edge research, are particularly vulnerable targets. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.