This is the third edition of the KIET Korean defense industry statistics and competitiveness report in 2014. The main purpose of this report is to establish the basis of the Korean defense industrial statistics with an actual survey from 2008 to 2013. Moreover, it also includes the defense...

In almost all the industrial sectors in Italy, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are well developed. Indigenous SMEs that have been rooted in the region for a long time make up the power and backbone of Italy’s regional industries. In particular, micro enterprises with fewer than 10...

Countries undergoing economic transition in the early 1990s faced enormous challenges in the process of shifting from a centrally-planned economic system toward a market-based economy. During the transition period, large state sectors of the former Socialist countries in the Eastern bloc...

In May 2022, the new Yoon Suk-yeol government has presented a new goal for national defense dubbed the ‘AI Science and Technology Strong Force’, and announced that it will reform the overall defense R&D system so that civilian technology can be applied (spin-on) to defense in a timely...