Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military Procurement and Technology Development

By V. Ruttan. 2006

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• PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AS AN INDUSTRIAL POLICY TOOL: AN OPTION FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES? (2010, background): “(Cabral et al., 2006; Ruttan, 2006) At the same time, publicprocurement efforts are also notorious for under-delivering.”
• Does culture still matter?: The effects of individualism on national innovation rates (2012, background): “…also considered by innovation scholars to be a major source of technological progress, and is included in the regressions as a percentage of gross national product (McNeill, 1982; Smith, 1985; Ruttan, 2006).6 Some might argue that culture determines levels of violence, and hence military spending.”
• From market fixing to market-creating: a new framework for innovation policy (2016, background): “It was only possible to achieve those missions when the public and private sectors worked together to create new technologies and sectors (Mowery et al. 2010; Ruttan 2006).”
• Urban Competitiveness and Public Procurement for Innovation (2011, background): “The Internet, GPS technology, the semi-conductor industry and passenger jets are perhaps the most prominent examples that resulted from government innovation-oriented procurement (Cabral et al., 2006; Ruttan, 2006).”
• General Sources of General Purpose Technologies in Complex Societies: Theory of Global Leadership-Driven Innovation, Warfare and Human Development (2015, unknown): “Moreover, this conceptual framework supplements the explanations of other approaches in the socio-economic literature [191,192,159].”
• The Entrepreneurial State (2013, unknown): “Some of the most important general-purpose technologies, from mass production, to aerospace, and information and communications technology, trace their early investments to public-sector investments (Ruttan, 2006; Block and Keller, 2011).”
• The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2015, unknown): “Equally important was envisioning the opportunity space, engaging in the riskiest and most uncertain early research, and overseeing the commercialization process (Ruttan 2006).”