The Relations between Defence and Civil Technologies

Abstract

1: Concepts, Approaches, Measurement.- 1. From components to integrated systems: Technological diversity and integrations between the military and civilian sectors.- 2. Spin-off: a fundamentalist approach.- 3. Some views on industry perspectives on civil and military R&D.- 4. Assessing the impact of federal industrial R&D expenditure on private R&D activity in the United States.- 5. Technology and Trade: Does military R&D make a difference?.- 6. The relationship between military and civil technology: a historical perspective.- 2: Country Studies.- 7. Interdiffusion of military and civil technologies in the United States of America.- 8. The need - and opportunity - for greater integration of defence and civil technologies in the United States.- 9. Civilian exploitation of defence R&D in the UK.- 10. A UK initiative for the transfer of technologies from defence to civil sector.- 11. The relationship between defence and civil technologies: policy of the French Ministry of Defence.- 12. Foreign technology and local innovation: some lessons from Spanish defence industry experience.- 13. Recent trends in R&D in Italy and in military R&D in particular.- 14. A small country perspective: military-civil technological relations in the Netherlands.- Part3. Indididual Technologies.- 15. Determinants of spin-off in the context of SDI: the VHSIC programme.- 16. Adaptation of new technology: the case of servo technology in Norway 1947-1956.- 17. Defence - civil relations in the development of new materials technology in Britain.- Participants.