Defense Firms Adapting to Major Changes in the French R&D Funding System

Jean Belin, Marianne Guille, Nathalie Lazaric and Valérie Mérindol

Defence and Peace Economics, 2019, vol. 30, issue 2, 142-158

Abstract: The structural changes inside the French innovation system have impacted the role of defense firms since the late 1980s. Major changes have affected the defense budget and public R&D funding system in particular. The aim of this article is to understand French defense firms’ repositioning within the National Innovation System (NIS) based on an analysis of their R&D behavior over a long period of time (1987–2010). We show that French defense firms remain major players in the NIS and faced up to these major changes by adapting the funding of their R&D and their research priorities and rolling out new innovation capabilities. Additionally, they developed new innovation models to take advantage of new collaborative partnerships developed for civil and military markets.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2018.1461790

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