There are correlations between ‘insider’ (threats, risks) and economic-industrial espionage as means to (illegally) acquire trade secrets, intellectual property, and proprietary know how.
Economic espionage
Why Spy: Is There A Global Rationale To Economic Espionage?
A unique argument about economic espionage by the then University of Calgary researchers is that when two technology producing countries spy on each other it is possible that both will be better off because the technology transfer, implicit in economic espionage, makes the outcomes beneficial to consumers. Insights that lead to better understanding of economic – competitive advantage adversaries who consistently engage in economic espionage.