Public Procurement for Innovation in Small States. The Case of Latvia

Aleksandrs Cepilovs ()
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Aleksandrs Cepilovs: Tallinn University of Technology - Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance

Rivista di Politica Economica, 2013, issue 2, 99-136

Abstract: Policy-makers in the EU have recently increasingly emphasised public procurement as a policy instrument to stimulate innovation. Public procurement is seen as an instrument able to fill in the gaps in the existing innovation policy-mix, thus helping to maintain competitive advantage of EU Member States in global competition. Public procurement has been widely covered in research, however, its application in a context of a small state has remained largely uncovered. This paper thus aims at bridging this gap, by analysing the potential smallness-related constraints to implementation of public procurement as a policy instrument. The empirical part introduces the case study of Latvia.

Keywords: public procurement; innovation; small states; Latvia; case study. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H57 L53 O25 O31 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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