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Sovereignty and self-reliance: the new Defence Industrial Capability Plan
Rob Bourke | May 14, 2018After almost four years in gestation, a Defence Industrial Capability Plan has emerged. Like the recently released Defence Export Strategy, the industrial capability plan is rich in
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The ABCs of economic impact in defence: a case study
Rob Bourke | April 26, 2018Having identified the key concepts behind estimating the economic impact of defence industry and the capital equipment projects that support it, I want to illustrate how those concepts play
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The foundations of defence industry economics
Rob Bourke | April 13, 2018A notable feature of recent debate about investing in Defence capital equipment projects has been the differing views of stakeholders on how that investment affects the economy—for example here,
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Planning for industrial sovereignty
Rob Bourke | February 28, 2018As we approach the second anniversary of the release of the government’s 2016 Defence Industry Policy Statement, perhaps the document’s single most important initiative has yet