China is also making a big impact due to its love of knock-off brands.
Of the 202 who completed the survey, almost three-quarters admitted to buying knock-off luxury goods.
The title, a lame Nietzschean knock-off, seems to be seeking a transvaluation of the word mess.
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Until recently, Indian clinical trials mostly tested knock-off versions of western products for the local market.
When Zynga fails to acquire a popular IP, they just churn out a knock-off.
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Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse are being sued for hawking knock-off knives on the Home Shopping Network.
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The problem is movie pirates, mainly in Asia, who surreptitiously videotape new movies in the theater to make knock-off DVDs.
Authorities were recommending that potential victims of the scheme have their vehicles inspected to look for knock-off parts.
They easily could have published something far less innovative, a zombie Call of Duty knock-off, and risked less.
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The check is popping up on every street corner, thanks in part to urban aficionados who buy knock-off versions.
"Knock-off shows that are lame imitations usually don't work, while innovation does, " Realityblurred.com's Andy Dehnart wrote in an e-mail.
"Success has less to do with whether a show is a knock-off than how compelling it is by itself, " Dehnart said.
The new combo pill will put Schering-Plough and Merck in the position of selling a knock-off of a rival's big seller.
Foreboding council estates and concrete tower blocks overlook rundown high streets full of fried chicken shops and stalls offering knock-off mobile phones.
One after another these supposedly concerned citizens walked into a knock-off solitary confinement cell furnished with a dirty toilet and television cameras.
With a pharmaceutical executive who was importing knock-off drugs, Camp once rejected a recommendation of 37 months and imposed a sentence of 50 months.
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But they are often imitative opportunists: if somebody makes a fortune selling knock-off purses, a dozen others will rush in to do the same thing.
It offers a taste of old-school Russia, selling everything from fruit and vegetables to knock-off Lenin alarm clocks, with lots of fascinating junk shops to delve through.
Second, biologics are really difficult to copy, and thus even after the patents expire, knock-off biologics (biosimilars) are far less a threat than knock-off small molecules (generics).
The Shenzhou themselves are based on Russia's Soyuz craft but, according to Phillip Clark, a British-based consultant and expert on the Chinese space programme, they are not a straight knock-off.
Otherwise, the CES show floor is absolutely littered with electronic ink also-rans, hybrids, and new screen technologies looking to knock-off the incumbent Kindle, underlying E Ink technology, and Amazon juggernaut.
Within minutes of disembarking on the "Hong Kong side", I plunge into Wan Chai market, where plastic packets of dried seafood - some with medicinal qualities - are sold alongside knock-off Calvin Klein underwear.
"Jobs I might knock-off in half an hour in Neath require careful planning, as if you have an accident, the nearest help could be anything from a day to a week away, " he added.
Boao is an undisguised knock-off of the World Economic Forum in Davos (with skiing replaced by snorkeling perhaps): a high-level gathering for policy and business influencers, with a similar nudge-and-influence mandate, here with an Asian focus.
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The market for fake luxury goods is nothing new -- knock-off Louis Vuitton bags, Rolex watches -- but the Italian Ferrari ring is an example of just how sophisticated the industry has become in the last few years.
During his second stint at Atari, in 1975, Jobs worked on a "Pong" knock-off called "Breakout" with the help of his longtime friend Wozniak, who did most of the engineering work on the video game, even though he wasn't being paid by Atari.
There seemed to be a natural order in the world that Apple would come up with amazing new products to sell at the highest price point, giving the cheap Asian manufacturers lots of opportunity to mimic with lousier knock-off versions at the low-end of the market.
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Is there some whiz-bang, brand new, knock-your-socks-off technology coming down the road that will be affecting how millions of businesses are doing business in the next five years?
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