Visible costs and invisible benefits : military procurement as innovation policy /: military procurement as innovation policy. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gunnar Eliasson.
• Authors: Eliasson, Gunnar
• Contents: The Role of the Competent and Demanding Customer and Technological Product Competition in Industrial Evolution : A Historic Perspective -- Public Procurement of Public Goods as Innovation Policy : The Cloud of New Technologies Around Military Product Development -- The Swedish Military Aircraft Industry : The Development, Upgrading, Modernization, and Exporting of the Gripen Combat Aircraft -- Weapons Development and Civilian Technology Creation -- The Linköping, Karlskoga, and Gothenburg New Industrial Competence Blocs -- Military Vehicles on Land and at Sea : The Experimental Dynamics of the Örnsköldsvik Industrial Region in Northern Sweden -- Worker and Engineer Learning on the Australian Collins Submarine Project : Human Capital Spillovers and the Case of Swedish Kockums in Australia -- Industrial Competence Bloc Formation Around Submarine Design, Development, and Manufacturing -- Indigenous Development or Buying Off the Shelf -- Competition, Industrial Competence Bloc Formation, and the Evolution of an Experimentally Organized Economy : Commercialization Theory -- Public Procurement of Privately Demanded Public Goods as Innovation Policy : Turning Dynamic Externalities into Social Value -- Theories, Choice of Models, and Estimation Methods : The Problem of Empirical Credibility -- Economy Wide, Long Run Model Based Social Cost Benefit Calculations -- Political Economics.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xlvii, 461 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 338.926; Economics; Military-industrial complex -- Sweden; Public-private sector cooperation -- Sweden; Defense contracts -- Sweden; Government purchasing -- Sweden; Management science; Economic policy; Management; Industrial procurement; Politics and war; HISTORY -- Military -- Other; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science; Public-private sector cooperation; Military-industrial complex; Government purchasing; Defense contracts; Business & Economics -- Production & Operations Management; Business & Economics -- Purchasing & Buying; Political Science -- Political Freedom & Security -- International Security; Research & development management; Purchasing & supply management; Warfare & defence; Science -- General; Sweden; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319669939; 3319669931
• Related ISBNs: 9783319669922; 3319669923
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-454) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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