{"id":2453,"date":"2026-07-14T08:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:47:11","slug":"dans-weekly-insights-no-17-what-smes-stand-to-gain-from-europes-defence-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/dans-weekly-insights-no-17-what-smes-stand-to-gain-from-europes-defence-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"DANS Weekly Insights No. 17. What SMEs Stand to Gain From Europe\u2019s Defence Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2453\" class=\"elementor elementor-2453\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9bd9993 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9bd9993\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-80b45ba\" data-id=\"80b45ba\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c94102 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9c94102\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The opportunity for SMEs is larger than most realise.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence and aerospace offer:<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">multi-year contracts<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">recurring revenue<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">higher margins<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">stable demand backed by governments<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">export potential<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">access to complex engineering<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">strong long-term relationships<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And the numbers are compelling:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\ud83d\udc49 SMEs active in aerospace\/defence report 20\u201340% higher average margins than in purely commercial sectors.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\ud83d\udc49 The EU expects defence investments to grow by 30\u201370% in the next decade.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For SMEs with the right capabilities and the right mindset, this is a once-in-a-generation industrial opportunity.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opportunity for SMEs is larger than most realise. Defence and aerospace offer: multi-year contracts recurring revenue higher margins stable demand backed by governments export potential access to complex engineering strong long-term relationships And the numbers are compelling: \ud83d\udc49 SMEs active in aerospace\/defence report 20\u201340% higher average margins than in purely commercial sectors. \ud83d\udc49 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}