Arms and innovation entrepreneurship and alliances in the twenty-first-century defense industry

With many of the most important new military systems of the past decade produced by small firms that won competitive government contracts, defense-industry consultant James Hasik argues in Arms and Innovation that small firms have a number of advantages relative to their bigger competitors. Such fir...

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Main Author: Hasik, James M. 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
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