Portugal's Changing Defense Industry: Is the Triple Helix Model of Knowledge Society Replacing State Leadership Model?

Autor: Costa Simões, Pedro, Carrizo Moreira, António, Mendes Dias, Carlos
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Zdroj: Journal of Open Innovation; Dec2020, Vol. 68 Issue 4, p1-19, 19p
Abstrakt: 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 number of dual-use projects has been growing. Taking into account that Portugal is a small European country, this paper analyzes the relationships within the defense industry in order to determine how university-industry-government relationships (the Triple Helix) function in this specific industry. The analysis of 145 projects of the Portuguese Ministry of Defense led to the following conclusions: first, academia was represented in more than 90% of the projects, and 40% of those projects have a dual-use application; second, there is a predominance of knowledge production, dissemination and application, for which the university's institutional sphere is essential and third, the Triple Helix system evolves into a network of relationships that involve projects with both civil and military applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index