Accordingly, ‘van- guards’, a group of stakeholders leading the way in new ideas and devel- opments, play an active role in proactively promoting their ideas of innovation to make them more durable and to embed them into organisa- tional cultures, institutions and materialities, and whereby the ‘merely imagined is converted into the solidity of identities and the durability of routines and things’. [...] Another illustrative example is of how the EU is mobilising political and financial capital to promote disruptive security and defence technologies under the European Defence Fund (EDF), the ground-breaking investment programme in the areas of security and defence that addresses both the EU’s capabilities-expectations and technological-innovation gaps in Europe (Csernatoni 2021b; Martins and Mawds. [...] MARTINS and normative expectations attached to disruption in these fields? In the same vein, what is the role of institutional, regional and national technological innovation imaginaries in the areas of security and defence? And what can we learn from how different fields of knowledge have studied this phenomenon? Studying Technology and Security: Materiality, Imagination and Speed The discipline. [...] Is the ‘shift’ to be observed in the present or in the future, in the technologies themselves, in their research and development, in security and defence orga- nisational or institutional structures, in defence market and innovation pro- cesses? Is the shift desirable, and if yes, what would be the positive effects, and who gets to benefit from them? Such conceptual and critical insights could fee. [...] The development of a more interdisciplinary and critical research agenda in the IR-based military innovation scholarship could be of great benefit and provide the impetus for new understandings of innovation and disruption in security and defence.
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