Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To …? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature survey of research on public procurement of innovation (PPI …: i) Does PPI spur innovation? ii) How should PPI be designed to best spur innovation? iii) What are the main barriers to …

innovation capacities, while start-ups applying for tenders without functional criteria, profit from larger foundation teams …

public procurement tenders. However, there is no direct or broad empirical evidence on its innovation impact. There are even … doubts about its effectiveness as an innovation policy tool, as it does not require innovations as part of its contracts and …

procurement works as an innovation policy tool but must be designed to do so. …

This paper investigates the impact of Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) and Research and Development (R&D) grants …’ awareness against a blanket increase in innovation policies without considering potential interactions. …

Public procurement accounts for 15 to 20 percent of global GDP and is considered an effective innovation policy … contribute by i) developing a comprehensive theory on the effects of winning non-innovative public procurement tenders as a firm … and ii) empirically testing our theory by combining representative German data with two-way fixed effect difference …

social and institutional innovation in both eco-innovation theory and policy. …Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the … need can be identified to improve our understanding of innovation processes toward sustainability in their different …