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No. If your opponent surrenders, you do not get his tech. Only what you can analyze from any ships he has..
Really? Even if that is true for human players (which I don't know if it is or not), keep in mind this is not a human opponent, but now an independent AI neutral race.
The 2 times during this current game that a neutral AI race surrendered to me, I got all their tech.
(Or at least, I got 1 level of each tech that he had higher than me. ie, I had mineral mining level 1, he had level 3. When he surrendered to me, I gained level 2.)
So the question really is, does a planet that secedes through PPP maintain the same technical knowledge level as the original race?