The Relations between Defence and Civil Technologies

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CONTENTS Preface Introduction Philip Gummett and Judith Reppy PART 1 : CONCEPTS, APPROACHES, MEASUREMENT CHAPTER 1. From components to integrated systems: Technological diversity and integrations between the military and civilian sectors. William Walker, Mac Graham and Bernard Harbor. CHAPTER 2. Spin-off: a fundamentalist approach. Ulrich Albrecht. CHAPTER 3. Some views on industry perspectives on civil and military R&D. Antony Clementson. CHAPTER 4. Assessing the impact of federal industrial R&D expenditure on private R&D activity in the United States. Frank R. Lichtenberg. CHAPTER 5. Technology and Trade: Does military R&D make a difference? Judith Reppy. CHAPTER 6. The relationship between military and civil technology: a historical perspective. David Edgerton. PART 2: COUNTRY STUDIES CHAPTER 7. Interdiffusion of military and civil technologies in the United States of America. Alexander H. Flax CHAPTER 8. The need - and opportunity - for greater integration of defence and civil technologies in the United States. Jacques S. Gansler CHAPTER 9. Civilian exploitation of defence R&D in the UK. N. H. Hughes. CHAPTER 10. A UK initiative for the transfer of technologies from defence to civil sector. Bernard Herdan. vii 1 15 17 38 58 68 88 106 115 117 138 159 166 emphasising the dimensions that civil technology. CHAPTER 11. The relationship between defence and civil technologies: policy of the French Ministry of Defence. S. Bindel CHAPTER 12. Foreign technology and local innovation: some lessons from Spanish defence industry experience. Jose Molero. CHAPTER 13. Recent trends in R&D in Italy and in military R&D in particular G. Graziola and M. Nones CHAPTER 14. A small country perspective: military- civil technological relations in the Netherlands. Michiel Schwarz and Luc Soete PART 3. INDIVIDUAL TECHNOLOGIES CHAPTER 15. Determinants of spin-off in the context of SDI: the VHSIC programme. Bernd W. Kubbig CHAPTER 16. Adaptation of new technology: the case of servo technology in Norway 1947-1956. Olav Wicken CHAPTER 17. Defence - civil relations in the development of new materials technology in Britain. Philip Gummett and lain Bate PARTICIPANTS INDEX 180 190 213 227 241 243 259 277 296 301