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Les inventions, la science et la guerre : la place du secret

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In the military sector, the adage according to which knowledge reinforces power depends on the capacity of such a power to appropriate and then to protect the scientific and technical knowledge. Industrial property rights are not adapted to the norms of military research. This is why, along history, secrecy has played the role of mediator in the relation between science and war. In the course of the XXth century, the notion of Invention Secrecy has been introduced in law and the number of Secrecy Orders has grown. During the cold war, the partitioning of the civil and the military sectors has been a mean to extend Secrecy beyond the military sector in order to include all national research which is potentially, as explained by J.D. Bernal in 1936, war research. Added to the introduction of the rules of markets in the functioning and the management of national research, this growing place of Secrecy can be at the origin of the slowing down of the rhythm of technical progress and of a misallocation of resources.

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  • Blandine Laperche, 2005. "Les inventions, la science et la guerre : la place du secret," Innovations, De Boeck Université, vol. 21(1), pages 109-143.
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