Introduction
There is a peculiar silence at the heart of innovation studies. In the corporate-civilian domain, the geography of technological evolution has been mapped by decades of scholarship with remarkable precision. Yet the oldest, most consequential, and most generously funded innovation system in human history receives surprisingly thin theoretical attention. The system of innovation that gets prioritised over everything and keeps the resources of an entire nation at its disposal is the one to organise a State’s efforts to develop superior instruments of violence. In simple words, defence innovation has yet to remain a highly neglected area while exploring theoretical underpinnings similar to those that exist in the socio-politico-economic domain.
