The Emergence of EU Defense Research Policy / Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (PDF)

Nikolaos Karampekios obtained his PhD in EU technology policy jointly from the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens. Currently, he is conducting postdoctoral research on the innovation potential of the Swiss security industry at the Centre for Security Economics and Technology (C SET), University of St. Gallen, funded by a Swiss confederation scholarship. His research interests include security research and industrial policy, innovation policy, and the relationship between defence and security. His work has appeared in (indicatively) Géopolitiques et Géostratégies Régionales, Military Power Review, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift, and Foreign Affairs (Greek edition). In 2015, he co-edited a book on the European Defence Agency (Roultedge Press). Since 2014, he is employed as a researcher-analyst at the Greek National Documentation Center engaged in (co)-authoring the bi-annualreport of the national research, technology and innovation level, performing bibliometric analyses as well as other R&D-metrics (business demographics, tax incentives, etc.).

Iraklis Oikonomou holds a PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales Aberystwyth and has conducted post-doctoral research at Ghent University and Sussex University, funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. His main research interests are European integration theory, the political economy of EU armaments policy, and EU space policy militarisation. His work has appeared in, among others, Wissenschaft & Frieden, Space Policy, Rethinking Marxism, Monthly Review, Studia Diplomatica, Agora without Frontiers, The Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs, and Intelligence and National Security. He is co-editor (with N. Karampekios) of the volume Arming Europe? The European Defence Agency (Routledge, 2015) and (with H. Golemis) of the volume Poulantzas Today (Nissos, 2012; in Greek). He has also guest-edited three