Advanced Public Procurement as Industrial Policy The Aircraft Industry as a Technical University /

• Main Author: Eliasson, Gunnar (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Edition: First.
• Series: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, 34
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Industrial management.; Production management.; Industrial procurement.; Industrial organization.; Economic policy.; Business and Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Industrial Organization.; Operations Management.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Procurement.

The primary theme of this book is to investigate the macroeconomic significance of the "cloud" of technological spillovers that surrounds advanced industrial production: In what ways do technological innovations spread and contribute to economic growth? What policies can be developed to ma...

Table of Contents:

• On the Cloud of Technology that Surrounds Advanced Production: A Summary of Results
• The Art of Defining, Pricing, and Marketing Advanced Multidimensional Products that Spill Technology
• Spillovers and Innovative Technology Supply: A Literature Survey
• Capturing the Direct and the Serendipitous Spillovers: The Case of Sweden’s Military Aircraft Industry
• Looking into the Future on JAS Gripen Spillovers
• Saab in South Africa: Technology Transfer to an Industrializing Economy
• The European Policy Perspective
• Private and Social Spillover Benefits from Advanced Procurement: Defining and Estimating the Spillover Multiplier
• Advanced Purchasing as Industrial Policy: On the Advanced Firm as a Technical University.