IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/defpea/v36y2025i3p373-394.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Defense Industrial Base and Network Structure: Measurement, Analysis and Public Policies for the Brazilian Case

Author

Listed:
  • Thiago Caliari
  • Luís Felipe Giesteira
  • Felipe Orsolin Teixeira
  • Cauan Braga da Silva Cardoso

Abstract

This work aims to identify sectors of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) that have the potential to generate productive and technological spillovers. We selected companies that sold to the Ministry of Defense (MD) between 2001 and 2019 from the Brazilian Federal Government’s public procurement database (ComprasNet). These companies were chosen based on their sectoral relevance according to relevant theoretical works. Our contribution lies in using economic activity co-occurrence reported by companies, using microdata in an unprecedented exercise in the field of defense studies. The main findings show that dominant sectors with higher technological intensity tend to have a closer relationship and greater diversity of relationships within the DIB compared to other sectors. By defining sectors with high potential for technological interaction based on relevant characteristics such as centrality, technological intensity, and MD budget share, we were able to identify the existence of sectoral clusters that can generate greater productive and technological spillovers, with particular emphasis on aircraft manufacture and ICT-related industrial sectors.

Suggested Citation

  • Thiago Caliari & Luís Felipe Giesteira & Felipe Orsolin Teixeira & Cauan Braga da Silva Cardoso, 2025. "Defense Industrial Base and Network Structure: Measurement, Analysis and Public Policies for the Brazilian Case," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(3), pages 373-394, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:36:y:2025:i:3:p:373-394
    DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2024.2303694
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/10242694.2024.2303694
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/10242694.2024.2303694?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:36:y:2025:i:3:p:373-394. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/GDPE20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.