Trade secrets

Japanese: 企業秘密 - きぎょうひみつ

Broadly speaking, it refers to unpublished information about corporate activities that companies do not want to make public, but generally it refers to information that has economic value. Examples of this include technical secrets and business secrets, and are equivalent to what are called trade secrets in the UK and the US. It is not uncommon for trade secrets to form an important foundation that supports corporate activities. In a free competitive economic system that expects the development of the national economy as a whole through the ingenuity and ingenuity of individual economic entities, trade secrets are interests that require legal protection, and some countries have laws that comprehensively protect them.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

広くは企業活動に関する公表されていない情報で，企業が公表を欲しないものをいうが，一般にはそのうち経済的価値を持つ情報をいう。技術秘密および営業秘密がこれにあたり，英米でtrade secretといわれるものに相当する。企業秘密が企業の活動を支える重要な基礎をなすことはまれではない。個々の経済主体の創意くふうによって国民経済全体の発展を期待する自由競争経済制度のもとでは，企業秘密は法的保護を必要とする利益であり，これを包括的に保護する法律を持つ国もある。

出典　株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典第２版について　情報

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