Kevin A. Desouza

Foreign collaborations optimised for profit, risk-sharing and a common goal of achieving technological superiority could well enable India to break into the global market in select areas.

• Kevin A. Desouza |
• July 31, 2017 |
• Issue Brief

India has been the recipient of transfers of defence technology predominantly through the licensed manufacture mode which, while being cheap and easy to implement, has some major limitations. This article...

• Kevin A. Desouza |
• July 2017 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

While developing critical defence technologies has undeniable benefits, their acquisition through Transfers of Technology brings numerous complexities and eventually may deliver limited benefits.

• Kevin A. Desouza |
• June 20, 2017 |
• Issue Brief

The relationship between the cost versus coverage of technology transferred, which likely follows the law of diminishing returns, would make technology acquisition beyond, say 80 per cent, increasingly cost prohibitive,...

• Kevin A. Desouza |
• March 21, 2017 |
• IDSA Comments

Transfer of technology has been prevalent in numerous forms across the world, both in the civil as well as defence domains, and India is no exception. These transfers, primarily in...

• Kevin A. Desouza |
• October 2016 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

‘Transfer of Technology’ does not magically elevate defence production capabilities to cutting-edge levels and help attain future self-reliance because technology sellers employ restrictive trade practices to prevent such an eventuality.

• Kevin A. Desouza |
• April 12, 2016 |
• IDSA Comments

Publisher: KW Publishers In recent years, transfer of defence technology to India, as an alternate route to indigenous development, has been frequently brought up with widely varying views from the...

• Kevin A. Desouza |
• 2019 |
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