00928nas a2200121 4500000000100000008004100001260001500042100002700057700001600084245010200100856013600202520046800338 2020 d c2020-06-101 aBruno Oliveira Martins1 aNeven Ahmad00aThe security politics of innovation Dual-use technology in the EU’s security research programme uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429351846-4/security-politics-innovation-bruno-oliveira-martins-neven-ahmad3 aThis chapter addresses the central role played by dual-use technologies in security and defence research policies of the European Union. It puts forward the argument that the EU’s strong incentives to these technologies – on the grounds of its potential for generating economic, industrial and innovation synergies between the civilian and the military domains – are a political choice that have relevant consequences in the security politics of the Union.