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Advanced Public Procurement as Industrial Policy
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This study is about the macroeconomics of positive externalities or industrial
spillovers around advanced production.
It is a case study, using different methods to generalize from cases at the microproduction
and market levels to economic value creation and macroeconomic growth.
I use the Swedish military aircraft industry as an illustrative case, and in particular
the major industrial project of the Saab JAS 39 Gripen1 multirole combat aircraft that
has been procured by the Swedish Air Force. The supplier was the Industrial Group
(IG JAS) of firms2 specially formed in 1981 to take on the considerable technical risks
associated with the program. The Saab JAS 39 Gripen project is unique in terms of
level of technological sophistication, clear definition and availability of background
material. Gripen was the first fourth generation “unstable” combat aircraft in the
world that could be “flown by the computer” and that could also change mission in
flight between fighter, attack and surveillance roles (Swing-Role capacity). Gripen
was also the critical actor of a complex early networked defense system and featured
advanced light weight technology to be able to land on, and take off from, regular
roads. The project, furthermore was a procurement of considerable size for the
Swedish economy and constituted an important reason for part of the procurement
being negotiated under an innovative incentive contract
Gunnar Eliasson - Personal Name
978-1-4419-5849-5
NONE
Management
English
2010
1-330
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