TY - JOUR AB - With popular opinion continuing to believe that Britain gives its inventors a raw deal, Bill Makinson — managing director of the National Research Development Corporation — makes the challenging claim that no idea turned down by his agency has been exploited successfully abroad. But that is not to say that British inventions should be kept from the hands of foreign rivals, as Makinson explains here. VL - 76 IS - 12 SN - 0007-6929 DO - 10.1108/eb056699 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb056699 PY - 1976 Y1 - 1976/01/01 TI - When sharing secrets makes sense T2 - Industrial Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 25 EP - 39 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -