Publications Office of the EU
Investigating the capabilities and the competitiveness of the EU vis-à-vis its main competitors in developing civilian technologies with critical spillovers into the defence
DisplayCustomHeader
MyPortal
italiano
BasketSummary
Visualizzazione Contenuto Web
Publication Detail Actions Portlet

Utilità

Publication Detail Actions Portlet
 Valutazione utente
custom-survey-notification
Publication Detail Portlet

Publication detail

Home

Investigating the capabilities and the competitiveness of the EU vis-à-vis its main competitors in developing civilian technologies with critical spillovers into the defence

Metadati delle pubblicazioni

This study proposes a framework for investigating the relevance of dual use inventions, i.e., military applications of civilian patents. The data collected extends the companion report that focused on the opposite direction of dual use: from military inventions to civilian applications. The analyses focus on 10 million patent families from selected patent offices in the years 2002-2015. The method proposed identified 85,034 defence inventions (0.9%) that were compared with the civilian inventions along several dimensions (time, geography, technological clusters). This study operationalises dual use from both a civilian to a military application (CM dual use) and in the opposite direction (MC dual use). The presence of CM dual inventions is 1.4% of the total civilian sample, with a slightly decreasing trend. They are four times the MCs in absolute numbers. The geographical analysis reveals heterogeneity: the US is the origin of 58.7% of the total dual use inventions identified in the sample and shows the highest incidence of cases (4.7% of all civilian inventions). The results also indicate significant heterogeneity in the share of domestic knowledge flows. The domestic spillover for dual in most of the countries examined is lower than for non-dual: a military application of a civilian innovation is a relatively more frequent occurrence outside the borders of the country with the exceptions of the USA, France, and the Russian Federation. The share of domestic CM dual use in the EU28 area is 36%, smaller than the corresponding non-dual value (42%).
Visualizza di più
Visualizza di meno
ISBN 978-92-76-17893-4
DOI 10.2760/78635
Numero di catalogo KJ-02-20-246-EN-N
PDF
ISSN ISBN 978-92-76-17893-4 DOI 10.2760/78635 Numero di catalogo KJ-02-20-246-EN-N
  • Released on EU publications website:
Publication Viewer

Visualizzatore di documenti

Pop up window annotations