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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 cannons to submarines, missiles and aircraft) is documented by many case illustrations that show how macro-level productivity advance has been generated. A complementary volume to Advancing Public Procurement as Industrial Policy (2010), which focused on the spillover effects of the Swedish combat aircraft, Gripen, in this book Gunnar Eliasson widens the perspective to cover product development across the Swedish defense industry, with an emphasis on regional economic development and macro-economics, inter alia through the involvement of Saab (aircraft) and Kockums (submarines) in partnership ventures in Australia, Norway and Brazil. The volume is organized into four parts. Part one examines the historical transformation of the Swedish economy over the past three centuries from agriculture and raw materials to an advanced industrial economy. Part two presents detailed case studies to illustrate the spillover effects of procurement projects and military-industrial partnerships. Part three explains the spillover phenomenon theoretically within a dynamic micro- to macro-economic perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on the empirical credibility of model-based economy-wide and dynamic cost-benefit calculations. The book concludes with a section on fostering industrial development through public procurement. The result is a book that will appeal to economists in the industrial economics and management fields; to technical, marketing and purchasing executives in business; and to policy makers in public procurement concerned with innovation and long-run industrial development.
Management. --- Industrial management. --- Industrial procurement. --- Politics and war. --- Economic policy. --- Economics. --- R & D/Technology Policy. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Procurement. --- Military and Defence Studies. --- Armed Forces --- Defense procurement --- Military procurement --- Procurement, Defense --- Procurement, Military --- War --- War and politics --- Buyer-supplier relations --- Buying, Industrial --- Industrial buying --- Industrial equipment --- Industrial purchasing --- Procurement, Industrial --- Purchasing, Industrial --- Supplier-buyer relations --- Industrial management --- Purchasing --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Political aspects --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Business --- Industrial organization
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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 maximize the economic potential of innovations? These themes are particularly timely in the context of global economic crisis, government-sponsored stimulus packages, and the ongoing evolution from manufacturing-based to knowledge-based economies. To explore these issues in depth, Gunnar Eliasson focuses on a detailed case study of the development of Saab’s military aircraft, the JAS 39 Gripen system—a project that involves advanced technological innovations, a complex network of suppliers, public-private sector collaboration, and both military and commercial applications. The experience in the aircraft industry is also compared with spillover effects in telephony, computers, and medical technologies. The study emphasizes the role of customer competence in raising the quality of innovation supply, and of entrepreneurship and industrially competent venture capital for commercializing spillovers. Eliasson integrates micro-econometrics and case study analysis with macroeconomics, innovation study methods, and business administration theory to measure the effects of technology spillovers and generate a solid empirical foundation for policy analysis. In particular, he considers: the role of competent public (government) procurement as a new demand policy to support innovation supply the emergence of the advanced firms as "technical university," where continual learning takes place and entrepreneurship among customers and other stakeholders is encouraged issues of intellectual property rights and the social value of technological innovations the implications for strategic business practice and public policy The result is a book that will appeal to a broad spectrum of academics, industry leaders, and policymakers interested in the dynamics of innovation supply, commercialization of technologies and economic growth.
Aircraft industry -- Technological innovations -- Case studies. --- Industrial policy. --- Technological innovations -- Economic aspects. --- Technological innovations --- Industrial policy --- Aircraft industry --- Economic History --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - General --- Government - General --- Business & Economics --- Law, Politics & Government --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects. --- Airplane industry --- Aviation industry --- Business --- Industries --- Industry and state --- Government policy --- 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. --- Aerospace industries --- Airplanes --- Economic policy --- Buyer-supplier relations --- Buying, Industrial --- Industrial buying --- Industrial equipment --- Industrial purchasing --- Procurement, Industrial --- Purchasing, Industrial --- Supplier-buyer relations --- Industrial management --- Purchasing --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Manufacturing management --- Organization --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial sociology --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Industrial organization
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