The European defense market: Disruptive innovation and market destabilization

Bellais, Renaud; Fiott, Daniel

doi:10.15355/epsj.12.1.37

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“…Accordingly, the convergence of the military and commercial markets has increased the importance of OTAs. 109 However, as a 2020 report by the U.S. House Armed Services Committee notes, OTAs tend to focus on startups, and these firms need to be supported by follow-on business:…”

Section: Relationships Within Innovation Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

System-on-System Competition in Defense Innovation

Dew¹,

Lewis²

2022

ExpwMCUP

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Defense innovation systems (DIS) have become an important analytic concept in defense policy circles in recent years. DIS are networks of interacting agents involved in the generation, diffusion, and utilization of defense-related technologies supported by local institutional infrastructures. This notion can be a valuable addition to one’s arsenal of tools for understanding aspects of great power competition between the United States and China. The DIS construct draws attention to competition between the United States and China being fundamentally a contest between different innovation systems. This adds an important perspective to policy debates because it broadens the analysis of competition away from particular elements and toward the overall systems involved, including global technological systems, dual-use technologies, and civilian elements that are important components of nearly all innovation systems. Furthermore, while U.S. industrial policy may have historically hidden it, the DIS construct draws attention to the intensive management and networking activities by U.S. Department of Defense elements involved in organizing the generation, diffusion, and utilization of defense-related technologies. For China, the DIS construct helps shed a bright light on the civilian-military fusion that has been a bedrock of China’s international competitive strategy.

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Section: Relationships Within Innovation Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

System-on-System Competition in Defense Innovation

Dew¹,

Lewis²

2022

ExpwMCUP

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“…(Bellais and Fiott, 2017;Kirkpatrick, 2004). Developing new systems have become less advantageous, as the R&D costs per system have risen, while the technological rates of return have decreased.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Instead, military innovation is slowly reforming itself to focus more on improving capabilities than developing an entire new type or generation of weapon systems. (Bellais and Fiott, 2017;Kirkpatrick, 2004). Autonomy fits into this new paradigm perfectly.…”

Section: Military Interest In Civilian Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Civilian Innovation in the Development of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

Verbruggen

2019

Global Policy

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Civilian innovation is often said to be an important facilitator in the development of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). This claim is held up as both a reason to ban LAWS urgently, and why a ban would be impractical. But we know little about how this dynamic plays out in practice. Theoretical insights on technology transfer can help to analyse the situation. They suggest that obtaining and utilising the civilian technology is harder than often assumed. Civil‐military cooperation is hindered by the stark differences between the civilian and defence industries. Business practices are out of sync, there are few social ties between the two worlds, innovative cultures do not translate, and many civilian engineers resist cooperation with the military. Additionally, defence still needs to modify civilian technologies to meet military standards and develop military‐exclusive applications of autonomy. While civilian innovation thus advances what is technologically possible, this does not automatically translate into major advances or rapid diffusion of LAWS.

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“…Nevertheless, to stay on the technological frontier in the defence industry, mostly reliant on mature technologies, requires 30 to 50% increase in extra cost to achieve 5 to 10% of additional performance (Bellais and Fiott, 2017). Freeman et al (2015) suggest that the British Ministry of Defence should communicate better its needs in terms of defence products and improve the accessibility of its innovation process to encourage new participants.…”

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The triple helix approach in the defence industry: a case study at the Brazilian Army

Fernandes¹,

Rosa²,

Araújo³

et al. 2020

WRSTSD

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As in many other industries, technological innovation plays an important role in the economic development of the defence industry. In recent years, the Brazilian Army has adopted the triple helix model and open innovation as cooperation models in research in order to generate innovation, involving the army research efforts, the defence industry and academia. Inspired on a Swedish model, one of the most recent army's initiatives to stimulate innovation was the creation of an open innovation arena in order to encourage joint open innovation projects in the area of intelligent energy conversion devices and energy storage, involving academia and industry actors.In this article, the concept of this pilot initiative and its first results are described. With the Arenas the army intends to induce the creation of a sustainable defence industry with companies based on dual use technologies in order to achieve strategic and economic goals.

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The European defense market: Disruptive innovation and market destabilization

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

System-on-System Competition in Defense Innovation

System-on-System Competition in Defense Innovation

The Role of Civilian Innovation in the Development of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

The triple helix approach in the defence industry: a case study at the Brazilian Army

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