The Innovation Strategy published in December 2007 built on both the Defence Industrial Strategy and the Defence Technology Strategy. It identified the main challenges to innovation in delivery of defence capability in terms of five distinct pillars28:
• Sharing the vision for defence capability: Communicate challenges in a way that promotes innovative responses to meeting capability.
• Capability and technology road mapping: Develop a Defence Technology Plan to share capability and technology plans with all stakeholders.
• Smarter systems engineering: Design systems with flexibility and upgrades in mind.
• Improved business models: Work with NDIC to develop business models that encourage innovation.
• Need for speed: improved responsiveness to allow exploitation of innovative defence technology.
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28 Innovation Strategy, Ministry of Defence (Dec 2007)