Defense Innovation, Technology Transfers and Public Policy

Bellais, Renaud; Guichard, Renelle

doi:10.1080/10242690600645274

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“…Fourth, the tendency in defence projects to subcontract work to small and medium enterprises, a significant number of which are engaged in important civil activities, could be a source of learning diffusion. On the basis of a literature review and several case studies, Bellais and Guichard (2006) argued that there are profound differences separating military and civil industrial activities because of two main reasons. On the one hand, technology transfer requires a significant joint effort from both parties.…”

Section: Factors Favouring Dual-use Technologymentioning

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Potential Dual‐use of Military Technology: Does Citing Patents Shed Light on This Process?

Acosta

Coronado

Marín

2011

Defence and Peace Economics

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This paper explores the potential civil use from the knowledge embedded in military technology. Using forward patent citation as indicator and from a comprehensive sample of 582 military patents with both US and European protection, we analysed the citations received for a military patents in subsequent patents. The technological origin of the citing patents will determine the use of a military technology. The methodology involves a descriptive analysis and the estimation of a multilevel logit model to determine the factors explaining the civilian use of military technology. The results show a differential behaviour among countries and types of military technology. Characteristics of firms, such as the technological experience of the company or institution in using military technology, are critical for a civilian use of the military knowledge.

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Section: Factors Favouring Dual-use Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential Dual‐use of Military Technology: Does Citing Patents Shed Light on This Process?

Acosta

Coronado

Marín

2011

Defence and Peace Economics

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“…Bellais and Guichard, in a study of defense innovation and technology transfer, have noted that "current intellectual property laws and practices do not fit technology transfer from the government-funded, secrecy-based defense R&D to the privately-funded, patent-based civilian industry." 31 The RMA has brought about a heavy reliance upon high-technology solutions to security problems, but does such technological warfare actually provide value for money and does it work? Many have raised serious questions about the overwhelming influence of high technology on how warfare and conflict and the conditions for peace are framed.…”

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Universities, the military, and the means of destruction in the United Kingdom

Langley¹

2008

EPSJ

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High-technology weapons and their support platforms, together with robotic vehicles and satellite-based communications systems, have come to dominate how many nations frame their defense policies and wage war. The resulting technological dependence creates a number of problems for governments, not least the growing military budgets which are required to procure such means of waging war, but also the costly research and development which underpins such devices. Increasingly governments and military corporations have turned to universities to augment the expertise found within industry. This shift to reliance upon the universities impacts not only on the securitization of science and technology but also the role and character of the university in society. Using universities as R&D laboratories creates a culture of secrecy and commercial sensitivity and tends to reduce the available expertise for more positive ways of addressing potential and actual conflict. Moreover, military involvement with teaching and research also limits the skills base available for the nonmilitary sector. These issues call for a wide-ranging and robust examination.

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“…However, the high cost associated with running research laboratories, the difficulties associated with licensing intellectual property, and the inherent problems with matching IP to firms able and willing to commercialize it means that this outcome is not always realized. As Bellais and Guichard (2006) recount in their analysis of Defense Technology transfer in the UK, successful transfers between government and commercial firms are difficult and involve complex processes that rarely generate large scale profits. Yet, researchers and practitioners alike continue to seek more specific knowledge on enabling mechanisms that assist in the technology transfer process due to recognition of how important these activities are to the economic well being of societies.…”

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confidence: 99%