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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Visible Costs and Invisible Benefits -- The Experimental Nature of Economic Evolution -- Summary and Conclusions -- The Stories -- Spillover-Intensive Investments Need Complementary Market Support -- Public Procurement as Innovation Policy -- The Military Customer Has Played a Significant Contributing Historical Role in the Evolution of Swedish Industrial Prominence -- Quantification and Empirical Credibility -- The Magnitudes Involved -- Are These Spillover Numbers Too Large? -- Dual Spillover-Intensive Products and Industrial Cooperation in Brazil and Australia -- Reading Instructions -- List of Cases -- Chapter 5: Weapons Development and Civilian Technology Creation -- Chapter 8: Worker and Engineer Learning on Australian Collins Submarine Project -- Chapter 10 (Sect. 10.2): Technological Product Competition -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Customer Competence, Military Technology and Civilian Industry -- Chapter 1: Background, Problems Addressed, and Economic Political Context -- 1.1 The Experimental Origin of Economic Progress -- 1.2 What Instigates Industrial Evolution and What Keeps It Moving? -- 1.3 Technological Lock-In, Path Dependence, and Learning -- 1.4 How Swedish Industry Got Where It Is -- 1.5 Professional Military Customership and Industrial Evolution -- 1.6 Regional Competence Bloc Formation -- Chapter 2: The Role of the Competent and Demanding Customer and Technological Product Competition in Industrial Evolution: A Historic Perspective -- 2.1 Professional Military Customers in the Past Paved the Way for Swedish Industrialization -- 2.2 Many Weapons Manufacturers Transformed Themselves into Producers for Civilian Markets -- 2.3 From Bofors Guns to Dynamite and the Nobel Foundation

"This book examines the historic role of professional and demanding military customers in industrial development. Particular emphasis is paid to public procurement of military equipment as a catalyst for innovation; and the civilian commercialization of military technologies (from gunpowder and cannons to submarines, missiles and aircraft) is documented by many case illustrations that show how macro-level productivity advance has been generated. A complementary volume to Advancing Public Procurement as Industrial Policy (2010), which focused on the spillover effects of the Swedish combat aircraft, Gripen, in this book Gunnar Eliasson widens the perspective to cover product development across the Swedish defense industry, with an emphasis on regional economic development and macro-economics, inter alia through the involvement of Saab (aircraft) and Kockums (submarines) in partnership ventures in Australia, Norway and Brazil. The volume is organized into four parts. Part one examines the historical transformation of the Swedish economy over the past three centuries from agriculture and raw materials to an advanced industrial economy. Part two presents detailed case studies to illustrate the spillover effects of procurement projects and military-industrial partnerships. Part three explains the spillover phenomenon theoretically within a dynamic micro- to macro-economic perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on the empirical credibility of model-based economy-wide and dynamic cost-benefit calculations. The book concludes with a section on fostering industrial development through public procurement"--Back cover.

The actual organization and use of information systems in American, European and Japanese firms are investigated and compared with theoretical conclusions. Finally, following the experimental evolution of the information products over the past twenty years, the results presented indicate that information and communication firms are now starting to offer the kind of business information systems predicted by the analysis. The transformation of business information systems technology can be followed in the Chronicle, which is provided on diskette and which covers the development of modern IT and telecommunications industries. The data are arranged to allow researchers to reconfigure the data according to their own needs