Gunnar Eliasson: 2 books
Visible Costs and Invisible Benefits
Military Procurement as Innovation Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
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...
Advanced Public Procurement as Industrial Policy
The Aircraft Industry as a Technical University
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
This study is about the macroeconomic effects of positive externalities or industrial spillovers around advanced production. The case explored is the “technology di- dend” around Swedish aircraft industry, and in particular around the aircraft ma- facturer Saab, and the major industrial project...