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Tony Ingesson, svartvitt foto.

Tony Ingesson

Biträdande universitetslektor

Tony Ingesson, svartvitt foto.

Innovators, Copycats, or Pragmatists? Soviet Industrial Espionage and Innovation in the Military Aerospace Sector during the Cold War

Författare

  • Tony Ingesson

Summary, in English

The article presents a theoretical framework for analyzing domestic innovative capability in relation to industrial espionage, drawing on material from the Soviet military aerospace sector, 1946–1990. It employs a structured comparative case study of six Soviet aircraft systems, which are compared to their closest Western equivalent. Three ideal types are used to categorize each case: copycat (mostly copying, virtually no innovation), innovator (mostly innovation, virtually no copying), and pragmatist (copying of specific parts or subsystems). The study concludes that only one of the studied aircraft is a copy, while three are innovative. The remaining two are categorized as pragmatic designs, where some parts may have been copied. This indicates that Central Intelligence Agency estimates of Soviet technological capability seem to have been mostly correct, while some in academia and at the policy level during the Cold War clearly underestimated the Soviets. The general conclusion is that large-scale industrial espionage should not automatically be seen as an indicator of a lack of domestic innovative capability.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2023-05-30

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

816-846

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

Volym

36

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Vehicle Engineering
  • History of Technology
  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)

Nyckelord

  • industrial espionage
  • Soviet Union
  • Cold War
  • Aircraft
  • Case Studies
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • central intelligence agency

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0885-0607