Defence Procurement, Innovation, and Value for Money

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Author(s): Robert Charles Wylie (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 19
Source title: Emerging Strategies in Defense Acquisitions and Military Procurement
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kevin Burgess (Cranfield University, UK)and Peter Antill (Cranfield University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0599-0.ch010

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Government & Law / Public & Sector Management / Public and Sector Management

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Governments may seek to obtain military advantage by procuring innovative solutions to requirements for military capability. Or they may seek to foster innovation by steering to that end what military equipment they procure and how they procure it. Both procurement of innovation and procurement for innovation require government actors to make subjective, contestable judgements about value for money with far reaching implications for innovation outcomes. This chapter uses case studies of military procurement in Sweden and Australia to demonstrate how different judgements about value for money can cause the outcomes of otherwise comparable innovations to diverge markedly.

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