The Political and Economic Context of European defence R&D

Jordi Molas-Gallart ()
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Jordi Molas-Gallart: SPRU, University of Sussex, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/

No 52, SPRU Working Paper Series from SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School

Abstract: Along with all other defence-related issues, defence research is a controversial area for EU action. Until recently, defence issues have not figured prominently among EU policy discussions and defence research has played little, if any, role in European technology policy. Although the Framework Programme is funding research projects that could have potential military applications in addition to their explicit civilian goals, there is no strategy on how to address such "dual-use" research activities. Yet, this paper argues that the interaction between technologies developed for civilian and for military use has led to a situation in which it is increasingly difficult to refer to distinct military and civilian technology bases. From the point of view of policy formulation a strict separation between defence and civilian technologies is increasingly appearing as anachronistic. The extent to which "dual-use" research will be explicitly considered in the development of the 6th Framework Programme will again emerge as a matter of debate. The paper presents and discusses different avenues through which dual-use and defence-related research could be given formal consideration in the development and implementation of the 6th Framework Programme.

Keywords: EU research policy; defence; "dual-use" research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2000-04-01
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