Caribbean wrote:The strategy is completely separate from any individual investment decisions - that's how Governments work. ... If the policy is well thought out and is still fit for purpose, then future investments that fall within it's remit will STILL have to comply with the policy, even if it's in 100 years time.
Thanks. I understand. But, supporting industry
requires money. It is cannot be "when some money AAA GBP become available, we will follow this strategy how to use it". It needs to be, "to support this industry with BBB size, we need continuous investment of CCC GBP amount, following the DDD long term plan". If you take into account "competitive", this means "to support
3 industries with BBB' size, we need
"3 times CCC' GBP money", ...". Industry strategy needs to be so. Without such investment plan, it is just a propaganda, not effective.
donald_of_tokyo wrote:In general, the builder has no free license for the ship design.
I didn't say or imply that . In general, however, the person who pays for the design owns it
if they want to (there is a potential cost to retaining ownership, so they may decide that they do not want to).
Yes. Exactly from this reason, most of the IP of Arrowhead 140 shall be owned by Danish government (or OMT), who payed the expensive detailed-design part. Babcock will be paying a small fraction (10%?) of design cost (to account for RN-specified modification), and "own" only 10% (?) of the design (if not paying a lot).
... Technology transfer deals are also done all the time (though usually it's more a case of "we like the technology, so lets buy the company", rather than purchasing specific designs).
Exactly. It is very important Babcock "buys" OMT, if UK want the full IP of it. Then, it will work.
I do suggest that you take a detailed look through their websites...
Thanks, I will try read it. I agree it has good synergy with ship building, but, as you agreed, "efficiency will not be high". Industry must be cost efficient or technically well-advanced to survive, especially in shipbuilding which is very competitive field. These yard are gradually losing skills on ship building (while gaining those on offshore infra.). How can they win against Damen?
NSS is aiming at export, which means they need to "win" against Damen, Navantia, and others, for example.