Military R&D after the Cold War Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe
Countries establish defence industries for various reasons. Chief among these are usually a concern with national security, and a desire to be as independent as possible in the supply of the armaments which they believe they need. But defence industries are different from most other industries. Thei...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1996, 1996
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1996 |
| Series: | NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 4, Science and Technology Policy
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1: Analytical Approaches and Context
- 1 Conversion Strategies in Eastern Europe and the former USSR: a thematic overview
- 2 West European defence industrial policy after the Cold War
- 3 Concepts of Military Technology: Contesting the boundaries between the civilian and the military
- 4 New Challenges after the Cold War
- 5 Shock Therapy — is there really no alternative?
- 6 Innovation and technology policy in the East European transformation — the Hungarian case
- 2: Cases and Experiences
- 7 Critical technologies, policy and security in a middle power country: a case of avionics and systems integration in Canada
- 8 Beyond the frontier: the convergence of military and civilian R&D in the United States
- 9 Procurement policies and military R&D in the Nordic countries
- 10 Transfer of technology and managerial skills: the possible role of foreign direct investment in the development of the East
- 11 The European Union’s contribution to the R&TD capacities of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
- 12 Conversion in the Ukrainian military R&D at the beginning of the 1990s: some results and problems
- 13 Study of the requirements and experience of utilisation of knowledge and results of military researchers: case study of the Medical Research Institute in Ukraine
- 14 Establishment of a technology transfer centre in Bratislava
- 15 Conversion in Bulgaria: some contextual problems
- 16 Observations on the socio-political and cultural context of military conversion: a Polish view