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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"technological advantage"”.
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The strategic choice between "standardization" and "differentiation" in R&D
… company cannot necessarily make a significant technological innovation. A company that pursues a technological advantage needs to manage global collaboration or competition appropriately. Over the years, the "standardization" of technology has been one of the major strategies with which to …
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Architecturing the future national security space domain awareness acquisition enterprise
… capabilities are eroding the longstanding US technological advantage in space. The US must react with capability development efforts that outpace the threat, but acquisitions have been stymied by a fragmented enterprise, risk adversity, burdensome acquisition processes, and oversight …
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Centralized execution, decentralized control : why we go slow in defense acquisition
… potential adversaries to catch up to the technological advantage the U.S. has maintained since World War 11. Despite hundreds of studies, and a near constant state of "acquisition reform", the problem continues. This research analyzed the defense acquisition process as a socio-technical …
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Partizaninis karas, kaip politinis fenomenas /
… and his enemy forces. The partisan never has a technological advantage over the enemy, so he must use his unique partisan warfare tactics, which from the enemy’s perspective seems unfair and disrespectful. However, this is the only way to reduce that force difference at least to some extent. The …
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An Organizational Network Analysis of the Sprawling U.S. Department of Defense Innovation Ecosystem
… It is through innovation that the military’s technological edge is maintained. Defense innovation refers to the broad set of experimental activities aimed at developing and implementing transformational technologies, strategies, and organizational practices to provide enhanced capabilities for …
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Cutting edge: the evolution of capability advantage in Australian strategic policy discourse 1968-2009
… The first was the link between credibility and technological advantage which emerged in the early 1970s and cemented the notion 8 that technology mitigated Australia’s strategic deficiencies. The second was the gradual entrenchment of the principle that Australia required a degree of relative …
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Cutting edge: the evolution of capability advantage in Australian strategic policy discourse 1968-2009
… The first was the link between credibility and technological advantage which emerged in the early 1970s and cemented the notion 8 that technology mitigated Australia’s strategic deficiencies. The second was the gradual entrenchment of the principle that Australia required a degree of relative …
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From Analog to Digital: The Geopolitical and Socioeconomic Calculus of Central Bank Digital Currencies
… CBDCs are varied and are the result of both technological and institutional factors (Auer, Cornelli, and Frost 2020). But does the story end here? Power Transition predicts that a rising challenger dissatisfied with the status quo will seek to adjust the international order (Tammen 2000). …
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Diamond-coated carbon fibres, the new generation of composites (CFRP)?
… such as titanium or aluminium alloys provide a technological advantage that motivates its use. However, one of the main problems with this material when used in aircraft structures is its poor properties in the perpendicular direction to the carbon fibres (CF), i.e. CFRP is an anisotropic …
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Semiconductor industry merger and acquisition activity from a technology maturity and intellectual property perspective
… (IP), which allow companies to both extend their technological advantage while denying it to others. Public databases such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) track this exchange of technology rights. Thus, IP can be used as a public measure of value accumulation in the form …
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Human Occupation and Changing Environments During the Middle to Later Stone Ages: Soil Micromorphology at the Haua Fteah, Libya
… Haua Fteah therefore potentially highlights a technological advantage of LSA industries which allowed modern human populations to adapt to a wider range of environments than was possible with MSA technology, an ability which may potentially have aided their global dispersal.
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Materials development for multicomponent systems with variable oxidation states
… temperature (~300°C) in a single step by taking advantage of the highly exothermic reaction produce by the nitrate and organic decompositions. In order to fully take advantage of the exothermic reactions and control the oxidation state, the precursor solutions had to be dried at low temperature …