Cleantech: State of the Art and Implications for Public Procurement

Robert Davtyan and Wojciech Piotrowicz
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Robert Davtyan: Hanken School of Economics and humlog Institute, Finland
Wojciech Piotrowicz: Hanken School of Economics and humlog Institute, Finland

Managing Global Transitions, 2021, vol. 19, issue 3 (Fall), 185-207

Abstract: This paper explores opportunities for utilising cleantech in framing research on sustainability-oriented innovations in public procurement. Research objectives include a critical examination of whether cleantech is a distinct sector through a systematic literature review and synthesis of findings with public procurement research. The final analysis involved 31 peerreviewed academic papers along with additional publications obtained with the snowball-approach. The results suggest that cleantech could be used to analyse sustainability related research in the public procurement context. Cleantech is also helpful in enhancing research on public procurement of innovations and addressing societal benefits through local development. Findings unveil new opportunities in investigating better access of SMES to public contracts through intermediaries, networks, and public-private partnerships. This paper is the first academic paper to analyse academic cleantech literature and link cleantech and public procurement fields. Such an approach is helpful in framing sustainability in public procurement research and stresses new ways of involving smes in public contracts.

Keywords: cleantech; innovation; public procurement; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H57 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.26493/1854-6935.19.185-207

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