The defense industry has unique features involving national sovereignty. Despite the
characteristics that led to the separation of the military and civil spheres, since the 1990s, the …

The role of the state remains underdeveloped in the regional path development literature.
This paper analyses how the Norwegian state via different roles (regulator, purchaser …

Public procurement refers to processes through which national, regional, and local public
authorities, state-owned enterprises, or other related bodies governed by public law …

When states make decisions on armaments policy, it is generally agreed they try to achieve
combinations of foreign, security, industrial, economic, and technological policy goals …

Mandatory offsets are policy instruments to leverage defence procurement projects to
conduct industrial policy. The prime contractor commits to generate new business in …

The relationship between industry structure, aggregate R&D activity, and the pace and
quality of the resulting innovation process is currently the subject of a lively debate across …

Artikkelen diskuterer EUs nye forsvarspakke med særlig vekt på CARD (Coordinated Annual
Review on Defence), PESCO (Permanent Structured Cooperation) og EDF (European …

A dynamic multi-stage decision-theoretic approach is introduced to establish the optimal
offset and its incidence, the contract price arising from bargaining, and the scale of the …

This article analyses the defence industrial market using an agent-based model. The model
draws a simplified version of the sector regarding the market agents and their conduct based …

This book investigates the relationship between international security governance,
democratic civil-military relations and the relevance of strategy, as well as of absolute and …