Les technologies militaires dans le développement économique contemporain

Jacques Fontanel ()
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

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Abstract: Military technologies and research and development exert a considerable influence on contemporary economic development. The United States dominates this sector, and the technological fallout on the civilian sector is very significant in many industrial sectors. The military-industrial complex strongly influences civil technologies. The SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) project is a particularly significant example. In this context, developing countries are both dependent on imported military technologies and on civilian technologies protected by patents. However, the defense sector constitutes a public priority that can delay or modify the content of the economic development of the poorest countries, often by delaying its effects. Military technological domination leads to a detour from civilian technologies, towards modes of production that are not optimal for the well-being of men.

Keywords: Technologies militaires; technologies civiles; développement économique; SDI; secteur de la défense; Complexe militaro-industriel.; Military technology; Economic development – Strategic Defense Initiative; civilian technologies; defense sector; military-industrrial complex. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989-04-02
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Published in Pax Economica, Apr 1989, Grenoble, France

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