Visible Costs and Invisible Benefits Military Procurement as Innovation Policy /

• Main Author: Eliasson, Gunnar (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation,
• Subjects: Management.; Industrial management.; Industrial procurement.; Politics and war.; Economic policy.; Economics.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Procurement.; Military and Defence Studies.

This book examines the historic role of professional and demanding military customers in industrial development. Particular emphasis is paid to public procurement of military equipment as a catalyst for innovation; and the civilian commercialization of military technologies (from gunpowder and canno...

Table of Contents:

• Executive Summary
• Chapter 1 Background and Economic Political Context
• Part I: Customer Competence, Military Technology and Civilian Industry
• Chapter 2 The Role of the Competent and Demanding Customer and Technological Product Competition in Industrial Evolution
• Chapter 3 Public Procurement of Privacy Demanded Public Goods as Innovation Policy
• Part II: Spillover Measurement: From Cases to Macro
• Chapter 4 The Swedish Military Aircraft Industry
• Chapter 5 Spillovers on Weapons Development and Civilian Technology Creation
• Chapter 6 The Linköping, Karlskoga and Gothenburg/ Mölndahl New Industrial Districts based on Military Technologies
• Chapter 7 Military Vehiciles on Land and at Sea
• Chapter 8 Worker and Engineer Learning on the Australian Collins Submarine Project
• Chapter 9 Industrial Competence Bloc Formation around Submarine Design
• Chapter 10 Indigenous Development or Buying off-the-shelf
• Part III: Theory and Empirical Method
• Chapter 11 Competition, Industrial Competence Bloc Formation and the Evolution of an Experimentally Organized Economy (EOE)
• Chapter 12 Public Procurement of Privately Demanded Public Goods as Innovation Policy
• Chapter 13 Theories, Choice of Models and Estimation Methods
• Chapter 14 Economy Wide, Dynamic Long Term Model Based Cost Benefit Calculations
• Part IV: Political Economics
• Chapter 15 Political Economics.