s for the owner of the intellectual property to incorporate the intangible intellectual property into a tangible product which can be made and sold. The second way is for the owner of the intellectual property to license the intangible intellectual property to another, who will make and sell a tangible product, in consideration for something in return (Gikkas, 1996).
Piracy of intellectual property rights has emerged as one of the most important foreign policy issues for many industrialized countries, particularly the United States (Buscaglia & Long, 1997). Issues involving the protection of U.S. intellectual property interests abroad have been the subject of front-page articles in such newspapers as the Wall Street Journal (Perle, 1996) and the Washington Post (Schwartz, 1996). Global intellectual property protection is important to the United States, given that new technologies are a main source of economic growth (Wallerstein, Mogee, & Schoen, 1990). Because intellectual property is relied on, in one form or another, by almost every segment of the U.S. economy, protecting intellectual property assets abroad is
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