The role of public procurement as a means to stimulate innovation has been increasingly emphasised the last few years. The general argument is that by applying intelligent demand, public agencies can stimulate private sector innovation that will eventually sustain competitive advantage in a...

This paper concerns the role of public procurement as a means to stimulate innovation. It manifests an attempt to summarise some thoughts regarding the utilisation of “intelligent” public demand that ultimately prompts private sector innovation. A part from some classical work in the past,...

The regained interest in the EU for public procurement as a means to stimulate innovation has prompted a debate regarding to what extent the laws regulating public procurement, in particular the EC Procurement Directives, hinder innovation. The rationale for committing to such a debate is...

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to examine the justification for encouraging SME involvement in public procurement, as a means to stimulate innovation.Design/methodology/approach: By applying a post-positivistic/non-disciplinary approach the paper combines a narrative literature review of...

Public procurement is the central sourcing mechanism evoked to directly secure the delivery of public services. It may however also be used to achieve certain social outcomes and secondary effects. This paper attempts to contribute with knowledge regarding a particular secondary effect, the role...