Military-technological innovation in small states

The cases of Israel and Singapore

Bibliographic Data

ID11157809
AuthorsRichard A Bitzinger (Nanyang Technological University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume44
Issue6
Pages873-900
Publication date2021-09-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Strategic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0140-2390 • E-ISSN: 1743-937X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402390.2021.1947252
OpenAlexW2806499170
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited18

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

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Indigenous · Looming · National security · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Law · Maritime Security and History

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