Some Call It ....

Do other countries have bootlegging in their companies?

Quite a few firms have their own specific term for it: English firms call it: Friday afternoon work, work behind the fume cupboard, free lance work, under the counter work, under the table work, pet-project, discretionary research, free wheeling, illicit research, scrounging , renegades work, work in the shadow- or underworld. French firms call it: recherche camouflage, recherche cache, recherche parallel, recherche libre, recherche en perruque, recherche sauvage, or recherche sous-marin. American firms call it moonlighting. German firms call it: U-Boot Forschung, or graue Projekte.