Two years after Trinity House, the money is there. The machinery is not.
The UK and Germany account for almost four-fifths of recorded European venture funding in defence. But a system qualified in...
Dr Michael Martin Richter is UK Country Director of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in London, where he works to connect the political, expert and business communities of Germany and the UK across defence technology and competitiveness. He is co-author, with Prof Dr Rafaela Kraus of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich and Prof Dr Andrew James of the University of Manchester, of Out of High-Speed Idle: A UK–German Agenda for Defence Technology Delivery, with forewords by Florian Hahn MdB and Lord Coaker. The paper is available here.
The UK and Germany account for almost four-fifths of recorded European venture funding in defence. But a system qualified in...
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