ID | 182632 |
Title Proper | Military-technological innovation in small states |
Other Title Information | the cases of Israel and Singapore |
Language | ENG |
Author | Bitzinger, Richard A |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | Both Israel and Singapore engage in military-technological innovation in areas deemed critical to strategic sovereignty. Both countries have consistently championed high levels of funding for military R&D and for maintaining and nurturing indigenous defense industries. Both countries have, to a varying degree, also strongly supported the cultivation of local S&T, including the spin-on of commercial high-technology breakthroughs into the defense sector. Israel has been more successful when it comes to military-technological innovation, mostly because it has to: its strategic situation is much more tenuous than Singapore’s. Singapore, on the other hand, faces much less of an existential threat, and so its military-technological innovation activities are more one of desire than necessity. |
`In' analytical Note | Journal of Strategic Studies Vol. 44, No.6; Dec 2021: p.873-900 |
Journal Source | Journal of Strategic Studies Vol: 44 No 6 |
Key Words | Technology ; Armed Forces ; Israel ; Military ; Singapore ; Defense Industries ; Innovation |