The paper tries to set a framework for the development of public procurement as a driver for technological innovation in the Italian context. It is argued that in the Italian experience public procurement is basically absent from the box of tools of industrial policy makers, in spite of the fact...

This is a premise to a series of papers aimed at stressing the role that public procurement may play (and actually plays within specific industrial systems) as to the development and diffusion of innovative practices within manufacturing industry. The issue is addressed from the point of view of...