The transformation of the defense innovation system: knowledge bases, disruptive technologies, and operational capabilities

Pierre Barbaroux ()
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Pierre Barbaroux: CReA - Centre de Recherche de l'École de l'air - Armée de l'air et de l'espace

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Abstract: The forces that drive much of the transformation of Defense Innovation Systems are manifold. The economic structure and institutional organization supporting defense innovation have been altered by technological as well as political changes. Increasing competitive pressures, together with the growing complexity of knowledge and technology have also shaped how defense companies, military services and procurement agencies adapted their core business models, competences, and strategies in order to be capable of providing their customers with the innovative products and services they need. This contribution builds on a ISTE-Wiley edition's recently published book untitled Disruptive Technology and Defence Innovation Ecosystems ([BAR 19b]) that aimed at improving our understanding of the transformation of defense innovation systems, by focusing on three interrelated dimensions. The first dimension is concerned with changes affecting defense-related knowledge bases, in particular the development of dual-use knowledge and the increasing complexity of defense-related knowledge structures. The second dimension is related to technology itself with a particular emphasis on the disruptive impacts of certain technological trajectories emerging from the outside of traditional boundaries of the defense industrial base. The third dimension is connected to the evolution of military customers' doctrines and capabilities towards netcentricity and multi-domains command and control (C²), the latter having a structuring effect on defense innovation systems.

Date: 2020-05-01
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Published in Systemic Innovation. Entrepreneurial strategies and market dynamics, 2020

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