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COBEM 2023
27th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
INNOVATION IN THE DEFENSE SECTOR: A SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE
Submission Author:
Marcelo Basto , DF , Brazil
Co-Authors:
Marcelo Basto, Fábio Lisboa, Tercio Brum
Presenter: Fábio Lisboa
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2023.COB2023-1556
Abstract
The importance of innovation in the context of the defense industry is related to national security and sovereignty, and the search for engineering solutions that combine elements to create a system, in order to achieve one or more specific purposes and meet the demands of the State. In this process of interaction and combination, the work aims to understand the dynamics of interactions between the actors of a Sectorial System of Defense Innovation (SSI Def). To this end, a conceptual approach was carried out based on studies regarding Building Blocks, and on the intentionality of agents, taking into account the peculiarities of the dynamics of the defense sector, and its current institutional arrangements linked to innovation and success in realizing complex systems. The methodology followed a bibliographic review, using the main collection of the Web of Science repository base, and the application of semi-structured interviews with key actors of the Brazilian SSI Def. This study showed that agents belonging to the defense sector interact based on the peculiarities of the Armed Forces. Traditionally, the characteristic aspects involving agents in this sector greatly influence the dynamics of innovation systems. The present research confirmed the symbiotic relationship between the technological regime and the forms of relationship between the actors. The wide variety of priority defense technologies, which develop at different levels of technological readiness, added to the potential interactions between defense innovation agents, reveals the diversified nature of the sector. The predictability and continuity of the demand for technological development must be at the heart of innovative defense processes, and depend greatly on an effective dialogue between the actors involved, in order to produce a relationship network capable of guaranteeing the continuity of the sector's strategic projects and the articulation of mechanisms to promote the industrial base. However, aspects such as: the need for budgetary continuity, lack of confidence, low communicability, and the peculiarities existing in the defense sector, indicate a tendency to obstacles in terms of the relationship between agents belonging to the innovation systems of this sector. In short, it was possible to observe a tendency towards low connectivity between the actors belonging to the defense innovation systems, which may result in delays in their evolutionary capacity, and consequently, come to harm the dissuasive power of the countries.
Keywords
sectoral system of innovation, defense sector, Interaction, agents, actors
